History on Thomas Jefferson essays

History on Thomas Jefferson essays In the excerpts from Thomas Jeffersons Notes on the State of Virginia I get the idea that Jefferson was kind of two sided on his views of slavery in many ways. But in Jeffersons case he actually fought on the side of the slaves in the handout. He talks about how the slaves are much more hard workers then the whites. Also he talks about how they can do some of the little things in life better then the whites that they served and worked for. But toward the end of the handout it is possible to argue that Jefferson was proslavery and yet on the other hand antislavery in his views. You can argue that Jefferson was proslavery also for hinting that after the slaves were freed that they are not to be allowed to mix with the society and yet be cast far away from the reach of mixtures in the community. There needs to be a resolution in that was Thomas Jefferson actually fighting for the slaves and saying that slavery was wrong or was he just saying that to make the people of the congress happy and in secret showing that he personally didnt like them and didnt want them in the culture. In the Notes on the State of Virginia Jefferson goes on the record as saying that in his view the slaves work harder then the whites do for several reasons. One of the things he says is that They secrete more from the glands then from the kidneys, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odor. This great degree of transpiration renders them more tolerant of heat and less so of cold, than the whites. From him saying this he is trying to say that the blacks can work harder under warmer and colder conditions since their bodies have the ability to sweat more keeps them going longer. From this we get the understanding that in the case of work that blacks are much better then the whites and in a sense that whites are inferior to the work that the blacks do. Jefferson also hints to the fact th...