Opinion | Happy birthday, Thomas Jefferson: A life sworn against tyranny WashTimesOpEd
plotted borders for nine new states, all with ordinances banning slavery. While many of his cartographic proposals were accepted, Congress rejected his ban on slavery.
In 1784, Congress sent Jefferson to join fellow abolitionists Benjamin Franklin and John Adams in Paris as a U.S. minister. He spent five years there, helping to shape U.S. foreign policy and supporting Marquis de Lafayette, a French officer and hero in the American War of Independence.At this time, developed a romantic relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, whose children he later freed. His greatest mistake was not freeing his other slaves, a decision that has understandably drawn criticism from historians.supported the 1787 Constitutional Convention from abroad. His previous bills for religious freedom were revived by James Madison, who incorporated their ideas into the First Amendment as the establishment clause and free exercise clause.
sent Dr. Benjamin Rush a letter, in which he wrote the words inscribed on his memorial, “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
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