...emancipation and deportation of resident slaves came to nothing. In 1782, Thomas Jefferson declared, " Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free," and, in the same year, " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice...

...to abolish this lamentable evil." Still another illustrious Virginian, our third President, said: " Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." But abolition was not a popular idea. Even in the North the men who first set it forth met with much...

...evolution. Listen to Thomas Jefferson's remarkable prophecy concerning the institution of slavery : " Nothing is more certainly written in the book of Fate than that these people shall be free." 5. There is the Law of Cause and Effect in the realm of character and achievement....

...plan: "It was found that the public mind would not bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even to this day (1821). Yet the day is not distant when it...book of fate than that these people are to be free." Another project which was dear to Jefferson's heart, but which the "public mind" of Virginia "would...

...plan: "It was found that the public mind would not bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even to this day (1821) . Yet the day is not distant when...and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more cer^xtainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." N ' Another project...

..."Autobiography" that "the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow."69 Jefferson's strongest stand against slavery was set forth in his Notes on the State of Virginia,...

...Declaration of Independence through the Civil War was well expressed by Jefferson in his autobiography: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these two people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in...

...found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt...the book of fate than that these people are to be free."12 So far, I think, we can feel that Thomas Jefferson was not simply ahead of his times, at least...

...deep: "Nothing is more certainly written in the Book of Fate," he said, "than that these people ought to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same govemment." But his views not only on the natural right of the Negro, as a human being, to equal freedom...

...God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. All of this passage, except for the last sentence, is taken from Notes on the State of Virginia. The...