After reading historian Henry Wiencek's research on Thomas Jefferson's stance on slavery, what does he argue changed Jefferson's mind about slavery? If Jefferson, possibly never changed his early anti-slavery sentiments, do you think if would have been possible for the author of the Dec. of Independence to have been successful in ending slavery earlier? Why or why not?

After reading historian Henry Wiencek's research on Thomas Jefferson's stance on slavery, what does he argue changed Jefferson's mind about slavery? If Jefferson, possibly never changed his early anti-slavery sentiments, do you think if would have been possible for the author of the Dec. of Independence to have been successful in ending slavery earlier? Why or why not?