In fact, Thomas Jefferson is presently pointed in today's history classes as a model of contradiction - on the one hand demanding the rights of man, on the other enslaving innocent humans in his obvious white supremacy. This is simply not true. This very document impugns itself by regarding slaves as three-fifths of one person for the purpose of apportioning taxes and representatives. The constitution serves as a written testament to the pro-slavery sentiment the conventioneers were willing to adopt for a nation's founding, albeit a faulted founding. Let not this paper serve the opponents of orthodox Christianity as testament against us by ignoring the racism their forefathers placed upon our shoulders, thus encouraging us to ignore our own sins.
Racism is a problem that has perplexed the human race since it began.
The only answer to this problem is found in Christianity. This fact is attested to by the Christian faith of abolitionists such as William Wilberforce, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lyman Beecher and many other brave men and women who voiced their discontent rather than be silenced by the prevailing views of their peers. Thomas Jefferson is to be included in this group. While it is true that Jefferson is portrayed in modern history classes as a white supremacist, a deist and a racist, this is, in fact, historical revisionism at its worst. Modern students of history ought to ignore their secular education and go straight to the facts.