Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, a member of the Republican Party, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States. Jefferson was a well-educated man who is even seen one of the greatest American “thinkers” of the enlightenment, alongside Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. They were said to have derived an outlook of hope and optimism from modern science and Enlightenment Pationalism. (pp. 3) President Jefferson was considered pro-people, but what many might not realize is that he was an advocate towards the issue of slavery and hostile to the welfare of blacks, whether slave or free. His proslavery views were shaped not only by money and status but also by his deeply
