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" I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. "
African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and ...
by Helena Woodard - 1999 - 180 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 78

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1788 - 714 pages
...only, that the Blacks, whether originally a diftinft race, or made diftinft by time and circumftances, are inferior to the Whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not againft experience to fuppofe, that different fpeciei of the fame genus, or varieties of...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...only, that the blacks^ whether originally a diftmft race, or made diftincl; by time and circumftances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not againft experience to fuppofe, that different fpecies of the fame genus, or varieties of...
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First Ripe Fruits: Being a Collection of Tracts; to which are Added, Two ...

John Mitchell MASON (D.D.) - Lord's Supper - 1803 - 336 pages
...that " their in" feriority is not the effect merely of their con" dition of lite*," he observes, " 1 advance it " therefore as a suspicion only, that the...to the whites in the endowments " both of body and mindf." He had before as" serted, that " besides those of colour, figure, " and hair, there are other...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...therefore as a suspicion only, j£bat the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinfil by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is hot against experience to suppose, that different species of the same genus, or varieties of...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the...the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose, that different species of the same genus, or varieties of...
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The Complete Works of John M. Mason, D.D.

John Mitchell Mason - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 604 pages
...; and that "their inferiority is not the effect merely of their condition of life,"* he observes, " I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that...inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind."f He had before asserted, that, " besides those of color, figure, and hair, there are other physical...
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Negro-mania: Being an Examination of the Falsely Assumed Equality of the ...

John Campbell - African Americans - 1851 - 566 pages
...races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the...the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose, that different species of the same genus, or varieties of...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies ...

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that...the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose that different species of the same genus, or varieties of the...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies ...

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that...the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose that different species of the same genus, or varieties of the...
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An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the ...

George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that...the whites in the endowments both of body and mind." — Jefferson's Works, vol. viii. p. 386. Alluding to these opinions several years afterwards, the...
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