The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. 

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia: Query 18, 1784

The man who wrote these words enslaved over six hundred individuals over the course of his life.  Join us as we discuss the most perplexing aspect of Jefferson: how the author of the Declaration of Independence could actively participate in the American system of race-based chattel slavery. 

Jefferson: The Enslaver