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Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson and his slaves children Slavery in America was created since the new world was first discovered. Treating humans as a possession led to terrifying cruelties. Discuss in details the origins and use of slave in America. Thomas Jefferson shows his most Important achievement, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson writes “We hold these truths to be self evidence: 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 happiness” ( The Norton Anthology American Literature 715). In my opinion the merely problem with this passage from the Declaration of Independence is that is does not say, “We hold these truths to be self-evidence, that all men including their race, creed, religion or color are created equal that they…..” Thomas Jefferson’s worlds were deceitful and hypocritical. Not all men were created identical and these men were slaves. Slavery has existed all through the United State at the moment in time and by 1760 there were about 325,800 African slaves in North America. This was the most brutal and cruelest treatment any man could tolerate. Africans were the perfect choice jefferson, thomas, slaves, sally, evidence, children, hemings, one, legal, jefferson’s, historical, created, america, whether, slave, paternity, men, life, analysis, years, slavery, rights, report, historians, dna, descendants, because, about, virginia, treatment, treated, time, tests, rules, problem