University:
Arizona State University
Course:
HST 200 | Historical Themes
Academic year:

2024
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75

Pages:

2
Author:

Thuyoul US

Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1790 The Slave Trade The Declaration of Independence's claim that 'all men are created equal' and the actual status of racial relations in the late eighteenth century presented the most stark contradiction, which was provided by slavery. Black people and White people are formed by racism. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but he also held over a hundred slaves, only a small number of whom he emancipated either in his lifetime or in his will. He disregarded Phillis Wheatley, saying, 'Religion indeed has produced a Phillis Wheatley; but it could not produce a poet," because he believed that Black people were inferior to White people. Most historians concur that Jefferson had a long-term sexual connection with Sally Hemings, but there were also instances of White slaveholders raping their captives. They had many children together: Jefferson's works display blatantly racist presumptions, even though he was fully aware of the conflict. Jefferson pushed for the abolition of slavery in Virginia and the expulsion of Black people from the state in his 1780s Notes on the State of Virginia."It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the Blacks into the state and thus save the expense of filling the vacancies they will leave by importing white settlers?" the author stated. Deep-seated biases held by White people; 10,000 Black people's memories of the harm they have experienced; fresh provocations; the true divisions made by nature; and numerous other factors will split us into opposing camps and cause unrest that is likely to never end other than the eradication of one race or another.it is possible to add moral and physical concerns to these political ones. Jefferson depended on the justification of expelling Black people from the country, even if doing so would totally destroy the riches of the slaveholders in their human property, in order to establish his "empire of liberty' for White farmers. Jefferson's beliefs on the abolition of slavery and the expulsion of Black Americans were sharply opposed by a large number of Southerners. "If this wild project succeeds, under the auspices of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and three hundred thousand slaves are set free in Virginia, farewell to the safety, prosperity, the importance, perhaps the very existence of the Southern States, wrote an anongmous "Southern Planter" during Jefferson's 1796 presidential campaign. The institution was supported and safeguarded by slaveholders and several other Americans.