Thomas Jefferson believed that slavery was evil. He also tended to think that Black people were inferior intellectually and, perhaps, morally to white people. He could not imagine whites and liberated ...

Thomas Jefferson's very existence was shaped and enabled by slavery. Slaves placed newborn Thomas in his cradle, and slaves comforted the former president on his deathbed. People often wonder aloud ...

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NEW YORK CITY -- The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously Monday to move a controversial 188-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chambers a City Hall. However ...

Fox hosts have complained that exhibits at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home leave visitors feeling "ashamed" because they focus too much on his ownership of slaves. During a segment on Fox & Friends ...

An elementary school in New Jersey is changing its name after a successful year-long campaign to end its association with Thomas Jefferson due to his slave ownership. Jefferson Elementary School in ...

I read Rosalind Nester’s tortured defense of Thomas Jefferson, prompted by one of his statues being removed by New York City (“Thomas Jefferson deserved better from New York City Council,” Nov. 20).

A New Jersey elementary school will drop Thomas Jefferson’s name because he owned slaves — and change it to honor the first black woman ever to graduate from a local high school, according to a report ...

A look at the third president, his slave mistress and the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson is an American icon. Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, minister to France, our ...

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