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...... This paper aims to discuss the dualism between Jeffersons perceptions on slavery and his own actions and analyze some of his writings in order to obtain a better understanding of his beliefs on slavery. Among the texts that will be analyzed are A Summary View of the Rights of British America, the Declaration of Independence and Notes on the State of Virginia. The paper will also look at his relationship with Sally Hemings, one of his own slaves, to whom he fathered several children. The conclusions will resume the findings in the paper


2. Analysis of Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
2.1 A Summary View of the Rights of British America
A Summary View of the Rights of British America was written in 1774 as a political document in which Jefferson aims, on one hand, to point out, to the King of Britain, how he has wronged his subjects in his American colonies and, on the other hand, to argue for a free America. Jeffersons rhetoric makes use of the issue of slavery, but rather only to show that the King has wronged his American subjects by not taking their legislative requests into consideration......

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