| Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic - Law - 2000 - 708 pages
...the future of Africans in this country, he expressed the view that blacks should be free, but he was certain that "the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government."1 Jefferson suspected that blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct... | |
| Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...sentence, the full text of which reads as follows: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less...Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them." Perhaps Jefferson kept his own slaves for reasons of simple economy:... | |
| E. M. Halliday - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 306 pages
...free"—unaware that the sentence has been chopped off midway, and that the startling unseen second half is: "nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government." This unequivocal declaration was made in his Autobiography, written just a few years before his death,... | |
| Robert R. Williams - Philosophy - 2001 - 300 pages
...people [the black slaves] are to be free." However, what is not inscribed is Jefferson's next sentence: "Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government."' 9 The Enlightenment mind found itself at home in Jefferson's world, a world of utility and precise... | |
| John Saillant - History - 2002 - 252 pages
...pressing. In a revealing passage Jefferson wrote, "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less...Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them."131 In his attitudes on race, Jefferson was thus bound by the two great... | |
| David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 336 pages
...Governmentality: The African Colonization Movement Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less...equally free, cannot live in the same government. The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson You propose my returning to Africa with Bristol Yamma and John... | |
| Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2003 - 376 pages
...them in close proximity to whites: "Nothing," he wrote, "is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free; nor is it less...certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live m the same goverument." If set free and not removed, wrote Jefferson, the blacks would be so ferocious... | |
| Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2003 - 376 pages
...at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. . . . Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government." 28 A year earlier, Jefferson had written: There is no man on earth who would sacrifice more than I... | |
| David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 334 pages
...threatening that he represented it as self-evidently consistent with racial and national separation: "Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government." As we will see, colonization articulates these two, conflictual claims, offering a systematic resolution... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...that these people are to be free," but he then left no doubt as to his true sentiments when he added, "nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government." Shortly after being elected president in 1801, a stunning accusation was printed by his former ally,... | |
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