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An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human ... - Page 245
by Samuel Stanhope Smith - 1810 - 411 pages
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A Documentary History of Slavery in North America

Willie Lee Nichols Rose - History - 1999 - 558 pages
...pursues his hostilities, and now advances to his main charge against these people. "Comparing them," says he, "by their faculties of memory, reason, and...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found, capable of tracing, and comprehending, the investigations of...
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Jefferson: Political Writings

Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid:...
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Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture

Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 300 pages
...whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid;...
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Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity

Dan Ben-Amos, Liliane Weissberg - History - 1999 - 340 pages
...and moral" attributes of blacks against those of whites as follows: In general . . . Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and Imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one 246 could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations...
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A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Arnold Rogow - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 374 pages
...forethought, which prevents their seeing a danger till it be present . . . their griefs are transient ... In memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid."4o...
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Diagnosing Jefferson: Evidence of a Condition that Guided His Beliefs ...

Norm Ledgin - Asperger's syndrome - 2000 - 284 pages
...at risk to his or her otherwise grand powers for logic and reasoning. Moving on — Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid;...
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African Americans in the Reconstruction Era

Chunchang Gao - History - 2000 - 340 pages
...it be present . . . Comparing them by their faculties of memory. reason. and imagmation. il appear to me. that in memory they are equal to the whites: in reason much inferior ... In music they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune and time. and...
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In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery

David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance and Abolition David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2001 - 414 pages
...disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labor. . . . Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior. ... In music they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune and time."...
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Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson

Paul Finkelman - History - 316 pages
...whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid;...
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Critical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers ...

Houston A. Baker - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 124 pages
...Cataloging-in-Publication Data available Once again ... for Mark that he may live in the light Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination,...it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to whites — Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia If history were the past, history wouldn't...
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