The new six-episode documentary series 'Thomas Jefferson' examines the third president's legacy of racism and his supposed early plan for emancipation GraphicaArtis/Getty Imagine a world where the ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the document that articulated the principle of human rights endowed by the Creator (thereby ultimately ensuring the end of slavery ...

The phrase was adopted in 1776, though slavery was being practiced and brutal violence was being enacted on Black people. Jefferson himself fathered six children by Sally Hemings, an enslaved ...

Slavery, like vengeance, is a vicious circle that has no natural end. Why not ... liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Jefferson, who wrote those words, was himself a slave-owner.

In Jefferson’s second term, he finally signed the end of the international slave trade, taking effect in 1808, though ...

PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): We're talking about Thomas Jefferson and the cover of ... you feel guilty and not so great about America, at the end there's a gift shop where you can buy Ibram X.

And the man who wrote those words, Thomas Jefferson ... But by the episode's end, the transformation to a system of racial slavery is complete. On the eve of the American Revolution slavery ...

Jefferson’s legacy has come under fire in recent years because of his history with slavery, along with the family he created with Hemmings. What the docuseries tries to do is put all of what ...

If Jefferson had had his way, according to his memoir, which he began writing in 1821 at age 77, slavery would have been phased out long before blood was shed to end it. His plan, he claimed ...

Slavery, like vengeance, is a vicious circle that has no natural end. Why not ... liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Jefferson, who wrote those words, was himself a slave-owner.