The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The "giddy multitude" made up of blacks and un-happy freemen, fought the most-significant rebellion, in colonial America. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... Slave revolts scattered the plantations and elites used "landless whites" to put down slave revolts with force. The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The "giddy multitude" made up of blacks and un-happy freemen, fought the most-significant rebellion, in colonial America. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... Slave revolts scattered the plantations and elites used "landless whites" to put down slave revolts with force. The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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Many slaves worked on the Madison plantation. ... He took an interest in politics and was an early member of the American Whig Society. ... Committees of this kind provided local government in the days that the British colonial government was crumbling. ...

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Born on April 13, 1743 to Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph on their Shadwell Plantation in Albemarle County, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson was born into opportunity. ... Jefferson was a brilliant scholar and while he studied, he was surrounded by the colonial capital and was able to the ways in which the government operated. ... Jefferson made this statement, "I was the pen of the American Revolution, as George Washington was the sword." ... In 1801, Jefferson became the third president of the United States of America. ... He would hardly ever allow one of them to be whipped" state Captain...

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The Men Behind the Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America was singed by the second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4th, 1776. ... Each of these three men were founding fathers of the United States of America and instrumental in its creation. Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 on the Shadwell plantation just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. ... The Miller Center (n.d.) states that in 1774 Jefferson wrote "Summary View of the Rights of British America". ... The Miller Center...

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The Statue was a joint effort between America and France and it was agreed upon that the American people were to build the pedestal, and the French people were responsible for the Statue and its assembly here in the United States. ... Monticello Architect: Thomas Jefferson Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Date: 1768-1782 Building Type: Colonial House Construction System: Brick Masonry Climate: Warm Temperature Rural Context: Colonial Georgian Fact: Remodeled between 1796-1808 Notes: Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson, designed, redesigned,...

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