Jefferson’s Monticello was built on ideals of freedom and the labor of enslaved people. Thomas Jefferson wrote about freedom while enslaving more than a hundred people, making him one of the most ...
In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.
When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.