Though he didn’t contribute to the Constitution, Jefferson famously authored the Declaration of Independence and, as the third president and a Founding Father, was renowned for championing equality and religious freedom. But at the same time he owned hundreds of slaves and forced one of them, Sally Hemings, to have sex with him and bear his children.
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