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You know that enslaved Africans in the colonies had no rights, no freedom. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that freedom (he called it “liberty”) was an “inalienable right” (one that was given to people by God and can’t be taken away). Yet he himself owned slaves as did many of the other signers. How can you explain this? Assume he wasn’t insane and that he did understand what he was doing.

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