The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Founding Fathers by Ray Raphael

Author:Ray Raphael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DK Publishing
Published: 2011-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

While Thomas Jefferson loathed slavery and wished it would come to an end, he caricatured the African people whom Americans had enslaved. As the Revolutionary War was drawing to a close, in a book he called Notes on the State of Virginia, he cast his allegedly scientific eye toward the many black people at Monticello, whose racial characteristics were “fixed in nature.” In reasoning abilities, blacks were “much inferior” to whites, he wrote. They had no imagination, making them “dull” and “tasteless.” Because they secreted less by the kidneys, he explained, they had “a very strong and disagreeable odour.” Because they lacked the “flowing hair,” light skin color, and “elegant symmetry of form” of white people, they were wanting in their “share of beauty.” Knowing this themselves, they preferred whites to their own kind, much as the male “Oran-ootan” in Africa chose “the black women over those of his own species.”

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