Thomas Jefferson: A Product Of His Times Or A Hypocrite?
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Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite. He was not only a leader, but he was a follower.
Thomas Jefferson did not believe in miscegenation. Miscegenation is the mixing of two races. He believed that whites could not compete with the blacks in sexual behavior. He said that it had nothing to do with ....
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.... did not fear the Native Americans in the way he feared black slaves. Jefferson believed that the Native Americans had higher order of intelligence and imagination than he found in Afro-Americans. The Native Americans seemed to Jefferson to be happier than the oppressed and degraded peasantry of Europe.
Jefferson compared the studies of Native American languages and came to a conclusion that there were twenty basic languages and that the Native Americans had lived in the New World ....
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