He got about one hundred and seventy-five by inheritance. His father, Peter Jefferson, bequeathed forty from his estate in 1764 and one hundred and thirty-five from his father-in-law, John Wayles, in 1774 (Thomas Jefferson's Monticello). Even though Jefferson had different motivations in treating his slaves than other masters, he still had slaves and had them do hard labor by bribing them with different incentives of appreciation. “During his lifetime, he freed two slaves” (Monticello by Thomas Jefferson). It is very self-centered of Jefferson to only free two slaves, when he claims he was a good master to all his slaves. All the slaves are unhappy, tired, depressed and want to go home with their loved ones. The daily life of the slaves was work from dawn to dusk. Even small children and the elderly were not exempt from these long hours of work under the hot and humid sun of the plantations. Many slaves lived in wooden houses built on the earth and the master's houses had no floor. These shelters had cracks in the walls that let in cold and hot climates