Contradiction

         Benjamin Banneker, a free African American and an astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac writer, wrote a letter to form U.S President Thomas Jefferson that reflects on Benjamin point of view of slavery and challenged Jefferson’s suppositions of the inferiority of blacks.Contradiction are statements that assert claims that cannot really be true, is a conflict of opposite. In this blog, I will discuss the contradiction of Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence have on one another with the continued existence of slavery.

The most devastating of Jefferson's contradictions were those that involved the issue of slavery. This man was a hypocrite when it comes to slavery, he supposedly disliked slavery and in his political career, he made some attempts to end slavery in the United States. Jefferson most importantly document  in  The Declaration of Independence immoral and fundamentally inconsistent with his lines and ideas about natural right in American History. Jefferson says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (2) this is important and explains that Banneker despite Jefferson’s misgivings about the slave trade, he continued to believe in the moral and social superiority of whites over blacks. Jefferson owned and sold numerous of slaves. It was also discovered that one of the female slaves he owned, Sally Hemmings, was the mother of at least one of his child. Jefferson contradictions were proven that he was not human, but he was a hypocrite. Banneker often reminded Jefferson of the language of religious humility that he had used the idea that the blessings of liberty come from a Supreme Being, rather than a human being having the decision  over another.