at least he made amends to create a more equal America.
he also owned slaves, which no amount of 'amends' can fix unless he like, personally gave each of those slaves like a grant of millions of dollars as an apology or some stuff
badspot once summarized this phenomenon pretty well, i can't seem to find it. basically he said that doing unrelated good things doesn't balance out the bad things you did before. if you go on a hacking spree and then try to justify your character or glorify yourself because you were nice to a couple people and contributed an add-on, you don't necessarily deserve the respect.
hopefully you understand where im coming from when i express this- there's no such thing as redemption. doing good for other people is a standard, a given, and it doesn't at all excuse or balance out all the stuffty stuff you did