Comments on: Thomas Jefferson on abortion http://bavatuesdays.com/thomas-jefferson-on-abortion/ a "b" blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:22:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: C. E. Whitehead http://bavatuesdays.com/thomas-jefferson-on-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-82823 C. E. Whitehead Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:00:25 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=1577#comment-82823 Hi, I think Jefferson was politically astute in his comments about Africans--that is, in the passage you quote, I think he was very careful to say something that would make sense to the Whites of the time (an equally contradictory passage on race is in the document describing the discovery of the Lumbee tribe and their need for a school; they were of all hues of the rainbow or something similar, having in them the blood of Raleigh's original lost colony, algonquian tribes, and escaped slaves; it was necessary to set them up with their own school and they were to be forbidden to intermarry anymore with 'coloreds'). I also note that the British found it convenient to have the Scots off colonizing the Americas. Best, cew Hi, I think Jefferson was politically astute in his comments about Africans–that is, in the passage you quote, I think he was very careful to say something that would make sense to the Whites of the time (an equally contradictory passage on race is in the document describing the discovery of the Lumbee tribe and their need for a school; they were of all hues of the rainbow or something similar, having in them the blood of Raleigh’s original lost colony, algonquian tribes, and escaped slaves; it was necessary to set them up with their own school and they were to be forbidden to intermarry anymore with ‘coloreds’). I also note that the British found it convenient to have the Scots off colonizing the Americas.

Best,
cew

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