Examines the life, political career, and achievements of the third president of the United States, including a discussion of his beliefs and their influence on the Declaration of Independence.

George L. Aiken's 1852 dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's cabin. Uncle Tom's cabin's dominating theme is the evil and immorality of slavery. Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.