1.   And these were men who did not own any slaves and had very little connection to the Southern economy or that of the North.

2.   As a matter of principle he never owned slaves.

3.   A fervent champion of individual liberty, he owned slaves throughout his adult life.

4.   But Justice Department lawyers and some blood Seminoles argue that some Seminoles owned black slaves before the Civil War.

5.   Even those whose forbears owned slaves?

6.   Fired up by his writings about equality, French intellectuals wonder, quite logically, why he still owns slaves.

7.   From the tattered remnant that remains of the left, both Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence are derided as hypocritical on the grounds that Jefferson owned slaves.

8.   He said he was proud his ancestors owned slaves.

9.   He reminded us that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves while signing the Declaration of Independence.

10.   He was a champion of freedom who owned slaves, an enemy of monarchy who sometimes behaved like a king.