Nicole continues her special series on Thomas Jefferson. This week we uncover a less praiseworthy side of our founding father – Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. With 5,000 acres of land, Jefferson had 200 slaves working for him at Monticello. However, this was a direct contradiction from his personal statements where he called slavery “an abominable crime.”

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