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Blacks may be inferior to whites in endowments of body and mind, a view offered as a suspicion only
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What Thomas Jefferson actually said
- Thomas Jefferson Third US President (1743 to 1826)
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
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↗Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV: Laws (1853 edition)en.wikisource.org
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