From running a child slave operation to nearly causing an economic depression, this is the side of Thomas Jefferson that the history books would rather forget. But now, we will return to the time when Thomas Jefferson was serving as president of the United States. We set out to correct the distorted image of a once-beloved founding father, Thomas Jefferson. To do this, we will be faced with 7 Disturbing Facts About Thomas Jefferson, From Racism To Rape. Through Jefferson's own words and the eyewitness testimony of contemporaries, Jefferson's was a man from Monticello as a visionary, an innovator, a man who revered Jesus, a classical Renaissance man, and a man whose pioneering stand for liberty and God-given inalienable rights fostered a better world for this nation and its posterity. He also was a philosopher, a lawyer, and our nation's third president, it's no wonder the Virginian remains a celebrated and mythologized figure to this day. But the man who coined the phrase "all men are created equal" was deeply flawed. For instance, while publicly denouncing the peculiar institution, Jefferson owned and operated a veritable slave kingdom. Shades of gray are to be expected in anyone, but Jefferson was president of the United States - and thus his dark side had an enormous impact on the trajectory of the country. For America, the time to remember these truths again is now.