Thomas Jefferson was a figure both central and polarizing in his own time, and despite the passage of two centuries he remains so today.
In Monticello in Mind, poet Lisa Russ Spaar co.
Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, yet at the same time a slaveholder who likely fathered six children by one of his slaves, Jefferson has been seen as an embodiment of both the best and the worst in America\'s conception and in its history.
Thomas Jefferson was a figure both central and polarizing in his own time, and despite the passage of two centuries he remains so today