Jefferson=Hypocrite

This essay presents a much different side to Jefferson than the man who helped write the Declaration of Independence. How can one person hold such conflicting opinions?

Jefferson views African-Americans as inferior to whites, he seems to view them almost as though they were animals. He says that slaves should gradually be freed but when they are free they should have to leave and go off some where away from the whites. Jefferson believes that when freed they should be sent away to form their own colonies in order to prevent racial disagreements and mixing of the races. To me it would seem that Jefferson is a hypocrite because he’s going on about not mixing the races, when he in fact had an affair with a black woman. He’s trying to set this moral standard and ideas when in fact he himself is not following any of these rules. He seems to be nothing more than a hypocrite trying to appeal to society.