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A 3 page paper which examines the contradictive nature of Thomas Jefferson. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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others. And, perhaps even most of those people who regard him as important and powerful and a noble man also see him as inconsistent and a contradiction. In truth, it
seems that he was very much a contradiction. The following paper examines this element of the character of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson: Contradiction First and foremost it is
important to understand that Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the most complex historical figures in American history. He has been analyzed and dissected in perhaps every possible way imaginable.
As such it is all but impossible to accurately and effectively analyze who Jefferson was in the limited space of this essay. He is a man who embodies the ideals
of America yet also apparently a man who represents all that is wrong with America at the same time. One of the most contradictory elements of the character of
Thomas Jefferson involves his owning slaves and yet fighting for the equality of all men. One author notes that "Thomas Jefferson is presently pointed in todays history classes as a
model of contradiction - on the one hand demanding the rights of man, on the other enslaving innocent humans in his obvious white supremacy. Even in letters to his intellectual
associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against their unsightly appearance" (The Forerunner, 2008). In truth this
may not really be a contradiction when one understands that slaves were not considered "men" as they did not won land and were not citizens. When fighting for freedom he
fought for "free men and for white men who owned land, the citizens of the colonies. He was raised with deeply imbedded social beliefs and one of those was that
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