Jefferson

The image most of the students get of Jefferson is that he is a good man who achieved many things. He has done so many things for the country and he is considered one of the Founding Fathers. In the passage he described slaves as “animals”. However, when you see the picture of his descendents on page 82, there are people who are mixed, which indicates that he slept with his slaves. Jefferson said offensive things in the passage, and one would never imagine that he slept with the “thing” that he was describing. It seemed like he believed that there shouldn’t be an integration of races, however the picture contradicts that. I am a little bit disappointed to really figure out who he is and what he believed. He is different from what the textbooks and other texts made him to be.