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The Development of Racist Theory
The Open Stax text discusses the racism common among European Americans (and the "founding fathers") at the end of the Revolution. Documents in our coursepack also explore this subject.
How do you explain Thomas Jefferson's views in his Notes on the State of Virginia (see the course pack, p.164), and how did anti-racists like Benjamin Banneker respond to Jefferson?
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Racism in Virginia State
Thomas Jefferson spent much of his adult life penning down notes corresponding to his
home country and abroad. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson focused on slave trade
which rampant in the United States at the time. He believed in the equal creation of all men, but
the state of things on the ground elevated the whites and regarded the blacks as inferior.
Jefferson, therefore, remained a consistent opponent of slavery in the public domain. Jefferson
(159) believed that slavery was moral depravity, a kind of hideous blot that threatens the survival
of the United States of America. Even though many scholars and activists of the time negated his
views, some in...
