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." It could be that if the conflict between Britain and the American colonies would not have arose, that Jefferson would have remained at this quiet home in Virginia. ... In 1801, Jefferson became the third president of the United States of America. ... In recent DNA testing it was proven that he had fathered at least on of...

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This idea that the slave holder was a sort of father figure developed due to the history of Brazil and it's colonial relation with Portugal. Brazil was for a long period of it's development under the colonial control of the Portuguese empire. ... Unlike South Africa where there was a strong sense of tribal unity or in Brazil where slaves were imported relatively frequently giving them a sense of family and a bond with each other, American slaves were second or third generation slaves who new nothing of there culture or native lands and who where stripped from there family at a early...

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