What is the authors viewpoint of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson lived in Virginia on a plantation called Monticello. About eighty slaves lived and worked at Monticello. They plowed the fields, planted the wheat, and drove the wagons. They cared for the hogs and cows. Household slaves fixed food for Thomas Jefferson and his family. They washed his clothes and cared for his children. The lives of Jefferson and his family were linked with the lives of his enslaved workers. By law, Jeffersons slaves were his property. That meant he could buy and sell them. He could give them away. He could hire them out to other farmers. Slaves who didnt obey were punished. And Jefferson granted freedom to only seven slaves.

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What is the author’s viewpoint of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson lived in Virginia on a plantation called Monticello. About eighty slaves lived and worked at Monticello. They plowed the fields, planted the wheat, and drove the wagons. They cared for the hogs and cows. Household slaves fixed food for Thomas Jefferson and his family. They washed his clothes and cared for his children. The lives of Jefferson and his family were linked with the lives of his enslaved workers. By law, Jefferson’s slaves were his property. That meant he could buy and sell them. He could give them away. He could hire them out to other farmers. Slaves who didn’t obey were punished. And Jefferson granted freedom to only seven slaves.

A	Jefferson hated his slaves and treated them like dogs.
B	Household slaves ate food with Thomas Jefferson and his family
C	Although Jefferson owned slaves he treated them like family and allow some to go free.
D	Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd president of the USA

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The South would keep slavery until after the American Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. In “Laws", Jefferson wrote: It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expense of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave?

Detailed explanation-2: -Notes on the State of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson, is at once a compendium of information about the state and a sweeping commentary on natural history, society, politics, education, religion, slavery, liberty, and law. Many consider it the most important American book written before 1800.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Plantation Monticello was a 5, 000-acre working plantation where over 400 enslaved individuals lived and worked during Jefferson’s lifetime.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson called slavery a “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot, ” but continued to hold human beings as property his entire adult life.

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