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How could Thomas Jefferson believe there could be a Right to enslave another human? Where were HIS rights?

He didn't believe in the right to enslave. If he had his way, he would have freed his slaves and sent them back to Africa. As it was, he taught them trades and paid them wages. Don't fall for the PC bullcrap that's out there intended to tear down white males and their accomplishments.

Wrong. There is extensive research on Jefferson, who PUBLICALLY always touted "freedom" for slaves, but never freed a single slave in his custody until after his death. He always found excuses, and they always related to $.

It is one thing to reject PC, which I do, but it is quite another to overly-glorify a man who in private never did what he called for others to do in public. Washington did, and Franklin did.

Some were taught trades but they were not paid wages. He did, apparently, pay slaves wages when they were in France with him. J's views seemed to change over the years for the worst. During the 1780s while in Congress he authored the Northwest Ordinance which did not allow slavery in those territories but while President he embargoed the slave rebels in Haiti attempting to starve them out for the benefit of Napoleon. J's influence was overall negative and his ideas led to the madness which produced the Civil War.

There are plenty of White Male accomplishments to be had without defending those not worth defending. I prefer white males who were on the right side of fundamental questions such as Hamilton, Franklin, to their opponents. PC has nothing to do with any view I ever express and it is simple-mindedness which thinks so. Blame my ideas on ME.