Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson; the author of the Declaration of Independence, one of the Founding Fathers, and eventually the third president of the United States. In that presidency there was the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Thomas Jefferson lived in Virginia, in his house famously known as Monticello. Thomas Jefferson spent most of his life, including his presidency, working on his house and when he died he believed it still wasn't finished. Thomas Jefferson owned 600 slaves all of which lived on the Monticello plantation. Owning 600 slaves made him the biggest slave holder in all of Virginia. Its ironic how the biggest fan of liberty and equal rights ( both of which he often wrote about) in history was the biggest slave holder in all of Virginia. When he died, all 600 of his slaves went to his funeral, as free men and women.