Malcolm X once remarked: "Who was it who said 'all men are created equal'? It was Jefferson. Jefferson owned more slaves than anybody else." Should Jefferson (and the other slaveholding revolutionaries) simply be dismissed as hypocrites? Or is it possible, in the context of their own beliefs, to reconcile the persistence of slavery in a land of "liberty"? Explain how the tenets of revolutionary republicanism could both demand that slavery be ended and yet also hinder efforts to abolish it. Give a few examples of the words and methods devised to get around this "Lockean dilemma" between 1776 and 1807.