According to Annette Gordon Read, how did Thomas Jefferson reconcile the declaration’s promise of equility with the constitution
’s permission of slavery? What did white Americans in the south come to believe about slavery and why? How did the white Americans in the northern states react to the south’s claim?
Jefferson consistently spoke out against the international slave trade and outlawed it while he was President. He privately advocated gradual emancipation and colonization of slaves already in the United States, rather than immediate manumission.
