A holiday to honor someone who owned hundreds of slaves for over 50 years,

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There were many men at that time who knew enslaving others was wrong — Adams for one, and Jefferson.

The slave holding founding fathers were, let's face it, hypocrites. And the biggest of them all were Washington and Jefferson, he of the Declaration of Independence.

"While considering slavery a moral travesty, hideous evil, and clearly at odds with his
values of the American Revolution and republican virtue, Jefferson owned several hundred
slaves at his home at Monticello and surrounding agricultural farms and businesses. In much of
his correspondence to friends and business associates, Jefferson laments the immoral institution
of slavery and yet describes how it must continue."

(here's the link: http://www.umbc.edu/che/tahlessons/pdf/historylabs/Where_Did_Thomas_Jefferson_Stand_on_the_Issue_of_Slavery.PrinterFriendly.pdf)

That's called being a HYPOCRITE with capital letters.