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Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, owned more than 600 African Americans during his adult life. Jefferson freed two of his slaves while he lived. Five others were freed after his death, two of whom were his children through his relationship with his slave (and sister-in-law) Sally Hemings. His other two children with Sally Hemings were allowed to escape without pursuit. The rest of the slaves he owned at the time of his death were sold to pay the debts of his estate. Privately, one of Jefferson's reasons for not freeing more of his slaves was his considerable debt, while his more public justification, expressed in his book Notes on the State of Virginia, was his fear that freeing slaves into existing American society would cause civil unrest between prejudiced whit