He freed less than 10, passing the rest on to his daughter as inheritance. Jefferson, a man instrumental in creating the Declaration of Independence, held over 600 men, women, and children, in chains for his own profit. “Countless children were born into slavery and died after a relatively short lifespan never knowing freedom for even a minute. “There were no gentle slaveholders,” says Parsa. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, raped one of the women he enslaved. The founders in yellow are the only ones who freed all the people they held. The founders with red dots are the slaveholders. Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin were all enslavers (as was Hancock). Out of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, depicted in Trumbull’s painting handing John Hancock an early copy, only two - John Adams and Roger Sherman - did not own enslaved people. Seeking to challenge arguments by gun rights advocates, who continue to invoke the Second Amendment and the unswerving authority of the Constitution, he decided to “portray the Founders in a light that made it easier to question their judgment.” He was inspired to create the image in August 2019, a bloody month that saw 53 people die in mass shootings in the US.
SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FREE
Read the whole Declaration of Independence here.“There’s a fundamental irony that these men were triumphantly declaring themselves free from what they viewed as the tyranny of King George III - without so much as a thought toward the people who they themselves held in chains much more brutal than 18th-century British taxes,” Parsa told Hyperallergic.
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton. South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean. Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross. New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott. Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery. Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry. New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton. "And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor," the Declaration of Independence ends before the signers affirm their support by boldly signing their names. Some 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Carroll said that the liberties secured by the document and enjoyed by the new generation of Americans were "the best earthly inheritance their ancestors could bequeath to them." Of course they also risked being killed for treason. As landowners and businessmen, they risked having their property and estates confiscated. The signers of the Declaration had much to lose. Carroll was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence. He later served in the Maryland legislature and the U.S. He had a long career, helping to form the Maryland government when he returned from the Continental Congress. Charles Carroll was 39 and a lawyer from Annapolis. He later became the Chief Justice of the Criminal Court in Maryland and then was selected as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States. Samuel Chase was 35 and a lawyer from Somerset County. 
He died at 44 years old in Alexandria, Virginia while awaiting a ship to take him to England. His wife died in 1787 and it is said that Stone never recovered from the grief.
Thomas Stone was 32 and a lawyer from Charles County when he signed the Declaration. He eventually became a judge and later governor of the state of Maryland. William Paca was 35 and a Harford County lawyer at the time he was appointed to the Continental Congress.
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