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For volume challenge and 2014 52 weeks. Journaling reads: My husband and I visited the exhibit "Jefferson and Slavery at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson helped to create a new nation based on freedom and self-government. Hiw words in the Declaration of Independence , however, did not extend "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" to African Americans, indentured servants or women. Twelve of the first eighteen presidents owned slaves. Thomas Jefferson, drafted the Declaration and called slavery " an abominable crime" , yet he was a life long slave owner. Slavery made the world that Thomas Jefferson knew. The colonial society into which he was born , in 1743 what became Albemarle County in Virginia would not have existed without slavery. Enslaved people tilled his father's tobacco fields, cured the tobacco and packed it for shipment, cooked and served the family's meals, cared for Thomas Jefferson and his siblings, and accompanied him to the college of William and Mary. The profits from the slaved based agriculture made his parents' household and lifestyle and his education and exposure to the capital of Williamsburg possible. Though Jefferson came to abhor slavery his livelihood depended on it. Enlightenment philosophy strongly Jefferson's ideas about two seemingly opposing issues: American freedom and American slavery, Enlightenment thinkers argued that liberty was a natural human right and that reason and scientific knowledge- not the state nor the church- were responsible for human progress. But Enlightenment reason also provided rational for slavery based on their beliefs of hierarchy of the races. Fearful of dividing the fragile new nation, Jefferson and the other founders who opposed slavery did not insist on abolishing it. It took 87 more years - and the Civil War , The Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th amendment to end slavery.
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