Did Thomas Jefferson mistreat his slaves?

Answer 1

So well that they didn't want their freedom.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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??.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

he feel bad because he had slaves wroking for him

Answer 8

So well that they didn't want their freedom.

Answer 9

Yes - so well, they didn't even want their freedom.

That was one reason he was made President - the good face of slave-owning.