Thomas Jefferson
Person on 2 sites
Third US President (1743 to 1826); author of the Declaration of Independence and Notes on the State of Virginia.
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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19 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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If freed slaves stayed, prejudice and grievances would bring conflict probably ending only in the extermination of one race (opens korrents.com)
“Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections by the blacks of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which Nature has made; and many other…”
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Blacks may be inferior to whites in endowments of body and mind, a view offered as a suspicion only (opens korrents.com)
“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.”
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Freed slaves, unlike in Rome, must be removed beyond the reach of racial mixture (opens korrents.com)
“Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history. When freed, he is to be…”
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If freed slaves stayed, prejudice and grievances would bring conflict probably ending only in the extermination of one race (opens korrents.com)