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Thomas Jefferson
He wrote that all men are created equal, owned more than six hundred enslaved people, and spent his life writing about liberty — a contradiction the country has never fully resolved.
1743–1826
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A vision of liberty shaped by paradox
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1743–1760
Virginia upbringing
Born into a plantation family in Virginia, Jefferson grew up surrounded by privilege, education, and the realities of a society built on inequality.
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The American Revolution and Early Republic
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