Thomas Jefferson Quotes
… at least as brave as the whites and more adventuresome
In general, Jefferson thought Blacks at that stage of their development inferior to whites but as this quotation shows he also thought them superior in certain traits. He also stated that their memories were superior to that of whites, but this observation we know now is not, like any of the others, a racial characteristic but is common in all oral cultures where human memory is the only way of preserving history, literature, procedures and much culture.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Description of a Bill he introduced in Virginia abolishing the importation of slaves into the State, View of Negroes, Quoted in Andrew Dickson White, “Jefferson & Slavery”, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1862
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Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
