What did Jefferson gain from each racial group, in reality, and in his imagination of what they were capable of? Be as specific as you can.
Jefferson and Race Reading: Hollitz, John, Thinking Through the Past, Volume One: to 1877, Fifth Edition (Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2015), Chapter Six, “Ideas in History: Race in Jefferson’s Republic,” linked earlier in module. Problem: More than any of this country’s founding figures, Thomas Jefferson illustrates the central paradox of early American history: that slaveholders […]