Thomas Jefferson has been recognized and remembered by many as the US minister to France, secretary of state, governor of Virginia, vice president, but most of all as the president of the United-States and the author and the launcher of the "Declaration of Independence." In the time when slavery was growing in Virginia, he was the president of the United-States, owner of many large plantations and 200 slaves, and also known as the wealthiest man in his province. However, Jefferson was mainly known as a man of many contradictions.

Although Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner, one of the largest at that, he believed that slavery was a horrific movement in society. He repeatedly expressed that slavery should be completely abolished, and supported the freedom of slaves. The rulers of Britain at the time were condemned by Jefferson because of their promotion to the slave trade. Jefferson also made...