51
"Their amalgamation with the other color," said he, "produces a degradation to which no lover of excellence in the human character can innocently consent."Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IX, p. 478.
52
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 243.
53
Ibid., III, p. 250.
54
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IX, p. 303.
55
Ibid., IX, p. 304.
56
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IX, p. 303.
57
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, X, p. 290.
58
Transcriber's Note: Missing footnote text in original.
59
Ibid., X, p. 291.
60
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, X, p. 292.
61
To General Chastellux, who had proposed to publish in a French scientific paper certain extracts from Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, he wrote the following in 1785:
The strictures on slavery (in the Notes on Virginia) I do not wish to have made public, at least till I know whether their publication would do most harm or good. It is possible, that in my own country, these strictures might produce an irritation, which would indispose the people towards (one of) the two great objects I have in view; that is, the emancipation of their slaves.Ford edition of the Writings of Jefferson, III, p. 71.
62
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 154.
63
Ibid., III, p. 192.
64
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, II, p. 247.
65
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, II, p. 249.
66
Ibid., III, p. 266.
67
Transcriber's Note: Missing footnote text in original.
68
Transcriber's Note: Missing footnote text in original.
69
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 267.
70
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 244.
71
Transcriber's Note: Missing footnote text in original.
72
Transcriber's Note: Missing footnote text in original.
73
Ibid., III, p. 245.
74
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 245.
75
Ibid., III, p. 245.
76
Ibid., III, p. 246.
77
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 246.
78
Ibid., III, p. 247.
79
Ibid., III, p. 247.
80
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 249.
81
Ibid., III, p. 249.
82
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 138.
83
Ibid., V, p. 377.
84
Ibid., V, p. 379.
85
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, V, p. 377.
86
Ibid., IX, p. 246.
87
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IX, p. 261.
88
Ibid., X, p. 344.
89
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, II, p. 26.
90
Ibid., III, p. 325.
91
Ibid., III, p. 409.
92
Ibid., III, p. 471.
93
Ibid., IV, p. 410
94
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IV, p. 82.
95
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IV, p. 127.
96
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IV, p. 185.
97
Ibid., IV, pp. 181-185.
98
Ibid., IV, p. 342.
99
Ibid., IV, p. 343.
100
Ibid., V, p. 31.
101
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, V, p. 66.
102
Ibid., V, p. 67.
103
Ibid., IX, p. 329.
104
Ibid., IX, p. 477.
105
Ibid., IX, p. 479.
106
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, V, p. 6.
107
This refers to "Avenia; or, A Tragical Poem on the Oppression of the Human Species," an antislavery work printed in Philadelphia in 1805.Note in the Ford edition.
108
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, VIII, p. 351.
109
Ibid., V, p. 296.
110
Ibid., V, p. 296.
111
Ibid., VI, p. 349.
112
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, VII, p. 168.
113
Ibid., VII, p. 167.
112
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, VII, p. 168.
113
Ibid., VII, p. 167.
114
Ibid., VIII, p. 340.
115
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, VIII, p. 104.
116
Ibid., VIII, p. 162.
117
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, VIII, pp. 161, 163.
118
Ibid., VIII, p. 119.
119
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, VIII, p. 492.
120
Ibid., IX, p. 477.
121
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IX, p. 478.
122
Ibid., IX, p. 477.
123
Ibid., IX, p. 478.
124
Ibid., IX, p. 479.
125
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, IX, p. 515.
126
Ibid., X, p. 76.
127
Ibid., X, p. 76.
128
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, X, p. 157.
129
Ibid., X, p. 158.
130
Jefferson MSS. Rayner, 164.
131
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, I, p. 5.
132
Ibid., I, p. 51.
133
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, VII, p. 310.
134
Ibid., X, p. 200.
135
Ibid., X, p. 292.
136
Ibid., X, p. 293.
137
In 1817 Jefferson had written Thomas Humphreys:
I have not perceived the growth of this disposition (to emancipate the slaves and settle them elsewhere) in the rising generation, of which I once had sanguine hopes. No symptoms inform me that it will take place in my day. I leave it, therefore, to time, and not at all without hope that the day will come, equally desirable and welcome to us as to them. Perhaps the proposition now on the carpet at Washington to provide an establishment on the coast of Africa for voluntary emigrations of people of color may be the corner stone of this future edifice.Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, X, p. 77.
138
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, X, p. 344.
139
Ibid., X, p. 385.
140
The Philanthropist, July 28, 1837.
141
Ibid.
142
The Philanthropist, June 2, 1837.
143
Cincinnati Morning Herald, June 1, 1844.
144
The Leisure Hour, 1853, II, p. 54.
145
Tyson, Banneker, The Afric-American Astronomer, p. 10.
146
The Atlantic Monthly, XI, p. 80
147
In another particular this same sketch differs from several others, namely, in locating young Banneker at "an obscure and distant country school" with no mention of the oft-repeated assertion that the school was one attended by both white and colored children. The author of the last-mentioned sketch was evidently not sure of these two statements, and therefore did not include them. In fact, he appears not to have been quite sure of the propriety of submitting any sketch at all of this "free man of color" to the distinguished body constituting the Maryland Historical Society, for there was a clear note of apology in his opening declaration that "A few words may be necessary to explain why a memoir of a free man of color, formerly a resident of Maryland, is deemed of sufficient interest to be presented to the Historical Society." But he justified his effort on the grounds that "no questions relating to our country (are) of more interest than those connected with her colored population"; that that interest had "acquired an absorbing character"; that the presence of the colored population in States where slavery existed "modified their institutions in important particulars," and effected "in a greater or less degree the character of the dominant race"; and "for this reason alone," he said, "the memoir of a colored man, who had distinguished himself in an abstruse science, by birth a Marylander, claims consideration from those who have associated to collect and preserve facts and records relating to the men and deeds of the past."J. H. B. Latrobe in Maryland Historical Society Publications, I, p. 8.
148
Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, V, p. 379.
149
In the memoir of Banneker, above mentioned, read before the Maryland Historical Society in 1845, and in another memoir of Banneker, read before the same Society by Mr. J. Saurin Norris, in 1854, the estate purchased by Mollie Welsh is referred to as "a small farm near the present site of Baltimore," and "purchased at a merely nominal price." See Norris's Memoir, p. 3.
150
Norris Memoir, p. 4; Williams's History of the Negro Race, p. 386.
151
Tyson, Banneker, p. 10.
152
It is elsewhere given as 7,000, but the earlier record seems to be the correct one.
153
Atlantic Monthly, XI, p. 81.
154
Latrobe, Memoir, Maryland Historical Society Publications, I, p. 7.
155
Ibid., I, p. 7.
156
Banneker would frequently, in answering questions submitted to him, accompany the answers with questions of his own in rhyme. The following is an example of such a question submitted by him to another noted mathematician, his friend and neighbor, Mr. George Ellicott:
A cooper and Vintner sat down for a talk,