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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have mixed feelings about Jefferson. On the one hand he was brilliant and contributed much as a founding father.  On the other, he was a great disappointment when it came to his personal actions with respect to slavery. He could have done better. At the time, Lafayette was extremely disappointed that the United States was a slave-owning country, and communicated as much to Jefferson and Washington, for example. It influenced Washington to free his slaves in his will, partly as an example to others. Jefferson didn’t follow up. There were others in Virginia known to Jefferson who freed their slaves, including Robert Carter III, who freed over 400 slaves by Deed of Gift over a scheduled period of time. Polish revolutionary hero [b]Tadeusz Kosciusko even left Jefferson a substantial amount of money in his will to use to free his slaves because he couldn’t imagine any reason other than lack of funds that could keep the author of the Declaration of Independence from taking this step[/b]. [/quote]

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