Thomas Jefferson did no such thing, he had his slaves whipped, sold them apart from their families, and other common practices. https://www.monticello.org/thoma

Thomas Jefferson did no such thing, he had his slaves whipped, sold them apart from their families, and other common practices. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/the-practice-of-slavery-at-monticello/ https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slaver... Additionally in his lifetime emancipating slaves was relatively easy compared to later times and groups that purchased and freed enslaved people existed. Everything in that paragraph is false.