Thomas Jefferson's famous Monticello mansion has been accused of bombarding visitors with unending and over the top references to the Declaration of Independence author's history as a slave owner.The reactions come after a ten-year effort to overhaul the exhibits at the estate and provide a more balanced view of the third US president who wrote: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' in 1776, yet owned slaves till his dying day in 1826. 'The whole thing has the feel of propaganda and manipulation,' founder of the libertarian Brownstone Institute Jeffrey Tucker told after a recent visit, 'People on my tour seemed sad and demoralized.'
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