Joyce Appleby discusses her biography, “Thomas Jefferson.” She begins by describing Jefferson’s complicated radical opinions and how former slaves and masters could not live together. She talks about how Jefferson started the Democratic Party when he returned from Paris to find the government being run too conservatively. Appleby discusses Jefferson’s tumultuous relationship with Vice President Aaron Burr who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. She talks about some of Jefferson’s important contributions to American history such as the Louisiana Purchase and sending out explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. She ends the interview by talking about Jefferson’s tax cuts and his conflict between suffrage for all people and prejudices against slaves.
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