 No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 701863Full view - About this book
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - History - 2002 - 562 pages
...he had taken in the Notes. "Nobody wishes more than I do," he observed, "to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of other colours of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition... | |
 | Neil A. Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 386 pages
...Almanac. (Bettmann/CORBIS) other colours of men & that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence both in Africa and America." He said that he longed to see a system established to educate blacks, and he advised Banneker that... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...who had sent Jefferson a copy of his almanac. Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,...and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America. November 24, 1801... | |
 | Robert David Sack - Philosophy - 2003 - 316 pages
...some of his work, Jefferson wrote to Banneker: "Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,...the other colors of men, and that the appearance of want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 416 pages
...instant, 4 and for the Almanac it contained. Nobody wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren...the other colors of men; and that the appearance of the want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 258 pages
...August 30, 1 79 1 , Jefferson answered: 108 [N]o body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colours of men, & that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of... | |
 | Charles J. Ogletree - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 412 pages
...relation to him.25 Jefferson replied, in part, No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colours of men, 8c that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - History - 2005 - 318 pages
...Benjamin Banneker, wherein Jefferson explained that nobody more than he wished "to see such proofs as you exhibit that nature has given to our black brethren,...and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence."14 That some blacks were living in the degraded... | |
 | Carroll W. Pursell - History - 2005 - 430 pages
...instant, and for the Almanac it contained. No body wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren...the other colors of men; and that the appearance of the want of them, is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and... | |
 | Andrew Burstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 376 pages
...he equivocated in a letter to Banneker — "No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,...talents equal to those of the other colors of men" — Jefferson wanted, again in Professor Onuf 's words, "to secure the sexual frontier between two... | |
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