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" 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 circumstances, will divide us into parties,... "
Intimacy In America: Dreams Of Affiliation In Antebellum Literature - Page 187
by Peter Coviello - 229 pages
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A Dealer of Old Clothes: Philosophical Conversations with David Walker

Darryl Scriven - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 208 pages
...thus save the expense of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites;...probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.—To these objections, which are political, may be added others, which arc physical...
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Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union

Lewis Diuguid - History - 2007 - 603 pages
...worried about what he called a "race war": Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites, 10,000 recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they...will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race. (75) Efforts to build bridges by such groups as Project Equality, Harmony/ NCCJ,...
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The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea

Thomas Bender - History - 2007 - 304 pages
...Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by whites; ten thousand recollections by the blacks, of the injustices they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions...probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.16 Writing in 1820, Jefferson observed that "we have a wolf by the ears, and we can...
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Come to Think of it: Notes on the End of the Millennium

Daniel Schorr - Political Science - 2007 - 412 pages
...Curiously enough, Jefferson himself wrote in 1791 that "deep-rooted prejudices against blacks will produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other." A hypocrite, ambivalent, or was his sexual relationship with a woman he owned not a...
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The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America

Robert Pierce Forbes - History - 2009 - 380 pages
...the number of white immigrants." Because of "deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites" and "ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained," Jefferson believed, the two races could never live in peace. While Jefferson never denied blacks' right...
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

Ned Sublette - History - 2008 - 369 pages
...behind the conviction that "all men are created equal." This is what the French learned from Jefferson: Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites;...probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race. It is worth noting this. In the years preceding the Haitian Revolution, this influential...
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All Honor to Jefferson?: The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good ...

Erik S. Root - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 268 pages
...the expense of supplying by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand...probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.60 The admission that prejudice existed in the young republic does not limit, or...
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In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party ...

Omar H. Ali - History - 2008 - 256 pages
...electoral arena has therefore been an essential part of the development of American democracy. one Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites;...and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties.1 Thomas Jefferson, 1784 It is an image that goes to the heart of why African Americans have...
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