"America was founded on beautiful ideals like liberty, natural rights and freedom; we have never truly lived up to them." ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

Thomas Jefferson owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his life, and through research, a more complete picture is emerging of the third president of the United States. Six additional ...

As a young lawyer, the man who would become America’s third president defended freedom-seeking slaves, drafted legislation to legalize their path to liberation and even entertained the idea of doing ...

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Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were created equal, but he also owned more than 100 slaves. When others like George Washington freed their human property during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson ...

On May 14, 1776, after eight days traveling across Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, lodging at simple boardinghouses and dining with locals, Thomas Jefferson boarded a ferry across the Schuylkill ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...

Prologue: The man who abjured his native victuals -- Americans in Paris -- A free city -- A feast for the palate -- The wine collector and the rice smuggler -- Brother and sister, reunited -- Boiling ...