So well that they didn't want their freedom.
Jefferson Davis, his brother Joseph Davis, and most slave owners treated their slaves comparatively well. A slave had a higher standard of living and shorter work hours than the factory workers in the north. The factory workers in the north worked 14 to 16 hours each day, six days a week, for starvation wages. A person might be considered better off as a slave in the south than being factory worker in the north; of course they were still slaves.
It appears that he fathered a child on at least one (Sally Hemmings). It is unclear how willing or unwilling she was, but she would hardly have been in a position to say no, so by modern standards this could well be viewed as mistreatment.
Arguably, he committed treason against the United States by leading a rebellion, though he wrote a dreary book of memoirs that tried to claim otherwise.
As President of the Confederacy, he proved unable to control either his Generals or his cabinet. When he should have been touring the South, giving talks to raise public morale, or visiting his troops in the field, he just stayed at home, issuing appeals for loyalty. And when it came to facing surrender, his character totally failed, and he fled in panic, talking wildly about continuing the struggle from somewhere in the West, when there was no hope of this.
In old age, he was viewed with affection, but never respect.
Jefferson Davis was an avid white supremacists and pro slavery supporter. He considered the black slave as inferior beings and as the property of their slave owners. He almost seemed to suggest that slavery was actually an act of kindness, saying the slave owners saw them through infancy to old age and disability and kept them â??comfortable and happyâ??.
Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate states of America during the American Civil War. He was widely known for his support of slavery and even owned a large cotton plantation with over 100 slaves.
he feel bad because he had slaves wroking for him
So well that they didn't want their freedom.
Yes - so well, they didn't even want their freedom.
That was one reason he was made President - the good face of slave-owning.
Thomas Jefferson Biggest secret was that in the Declaration of Independence he wrote"All mens are created equal". But when he wrote that it didn't include the slaves and the womans because Thomas Jefferson Had SLAVES. Meaning it didn't include the African American(slaves).
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a radical thinker. Indeed, he had slaves, but he knew that since the colonists wanted independence, the slaves would too. He did not think of the slaves as animals, but as people. Yes, he had many of them, but that was the expectation of a wealthier person in that time.
Thomas Jefferson's father was Peter Jefferson and his grandfather was Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson gave almost all of his most prized possessions to friends and the University of Virginia. His land was given to a grandson. He also gave freedom to his two remaining slaves.
600 slaves
because Thomas Jefferson liked slaves
Yes! Thomas Jefferson treated his slaves like they were family.
Thomas Jefferson Biggest secret was that in the Declaration of Independence he wrote"All mens are created equal". But when he wrote that it didn't include the slaves and the womans because Thomas Jefferson Had SLAVES. Meaning it didn't include the African American(slaves).
Thomas Jefferson's DNA was never testing. It has been alleged that Thomas Jefferson fathered several children from the slaves he owned.
No he did not.
No
No he actually had slaves himself.
Thomas Jefferson kept meticulous hand-written records. He had 187 slaves. A slave named Sally Hemings and her 5 children were freed by Thomas Jefferson either before his death or in his will. These were almost the only slaves which Thomas Jefferson ever freed and the other slaves were sold shortly after he died in order to provide money to pay off some of Jefferson's outstanding debts.
He wanted to drum out the people who helped slaves get to Canada.
Thomas Jefferson
Much of the criticism Thomas Jefferson receives today is because he did not move to outlaw slavery when he had the opportunity to. He even owned slaves himself.