Question

1. Why would the fact that Jeffersons owned slaves (a true fact) cause the Professor to not discuss him in a college class? 2-3 sentences

Answer 1

Because he said “all men are created equal”but Jefferson consistently spoke out against the international slave trade and outlawed it while he was President. He privately advocated gradual emancipation and colonization of slaves already in the United States, rather than immediate manumission.