Known to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington, All

Multiple Choice

Known to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington, all prominent slaveholders among the founders, _____________ freed all 500 of the African Americans he enslaved; he had come to view slavery as "contrary to the principles of religion and justice."

A) Wade Hampton III
B) Robert Carter III
C) David Rice Atchison
D) William Aiken Jr.
E) Judah P. Benjamin