Defend or Refute: Thomas Jefferson was a conflicted intellect, politician, man, and racialist. (argumentative essay refuting the aforementioned claim; works cited included)

Thomas Jefferson's primary goal was to craft a new nation, an American democracy, where people could live free from tyranny. All of his actions were consistent with this principle. A quick glimpse at this multifaceted man leads one to see the slave owner against slavery, the strict constructionist who violated the Constitution to obtain the Louisiana Territory, or the anti-factionist who imposed the Embargo Act of 1807 on a democratic nation. However, upon a thorough evaluation …showed first 75 words of 3055 total…

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