Thomas Jefferson Against Slavery

Thomas Jefferson was a man who was against slavery and believed in freedom. His thoughts of slavery was it was a destruction to America . Jefferson also saw slavery as an abolishment of the right to personal liberty. During the time of the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson was very involved in the legislation in hopes it would result in the abolition of slavery. As Jefferson began to abolition slavery, the population of slaves began to rise. Instead slavery became more widespread and profitable. Thomas Jefferson was not one who for democracy the reason being was that it did not serve equal rights and it overpowered the minority. As president he reduced the size of the federal government by ending internal taxes, he reduced the size
of the army and the navy, he also payed off the government's debt. Jefferson advocated a political system that favored public education, free voting, free press, limited government, and democracy and fled from aristocratic rule. Jefferson's republican beliefs took a large role of his presidency although he often went astray from his values. The rivalry between Hamilton and Jefferson resulted in two political parties. Jefferson created the Republican Party which is often known as the Democrat- Republican Party, which favored his ideas on limited government, economic freedom and democracy. Hamilton created a Federalist Party which favored mercantilist economy and greater federal control. However, both parties advocated federalism, the Federalist favored a strong centralized government at the expense of the states. Although Anti- Federalist wanted governmental power to lie at the state level. However, due to such things like the Barbary War, and the Louisiana Purchase it often put him more in line with the federalist. During Jefferson's presidency he portrayed several in depth quotes about America and how he viewed the situations in which he faced during his presidency. Some of his quotes are implied to be about democracy and others describe the dependence and Jefferson viewed America. While Jefferson was president he had several beliefs and ideas in which he never gave up on and slavery is great example of that. Jefferson knew that slavery was not right, so he tried to abolition slavery, which did not go how he planned but without Jefferson America would not be where it is today.