Question

Drag each tile to the correct box. Match the Founder with an example of a contradiction in their life around the concept of freedom. George Washington, General in the Continental Army Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence Sam Adams, politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence failed to defend property rights of Indigenous people arrowRight tried to recapture an enslaved woman who escaped to New Hampshire arrowRight enslaved his own children

Answer 1

George Washington

• General in the Continental Army
• tried to recapture an enslaved woman who escaped to New Hampshire

George Washington may have been the General of the American forces in the American Revolution and a supporter of gradual emancipation but when an enslaved person named One Judge tried to escape from his wife's service, he tried to recapture her and her children.

Thomas Jefferson

• author of the Declaration of Independence
• enslaved his own children

Thomas Jefferson was known to preach about liberty and justice yet owned a lot of enslaved people with estimates reaching to 600 in his lifetime.

He even had children with an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings and owned those children when they were born.

Sam Adams  

• signer of the Declaration of Independence
• failed to defend property rights of Indigenous people

Sam Adams was one of those who signed the Declaration of Independence which called for people to be free of oppression yet did not help Native Americans when their lands were under threat from Americans who wanted it.

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