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" Most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated that they might have availed themselves of the conversation of their masters; many have been brought up to the handicraft arts,... "
An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human ... - Page 246
by Samuel Stanhope Smith - 1810 - 411 pages
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...of them, indeed, have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society : yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries...
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The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3

Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1917 - 504 pages
...America. Most of them, indeed, have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society; yet many of them have been so situated that they might...themselves of the conversation of their masters ; many of them have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated...
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The Education and Economic Development of the Negro in Virginia, Pages 51-56

William Henry Brown - African Americans - 1923 - 160 pages
...been done towards Negro education by 1787. He tells us in his Notes on Virginia that "many of them have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance, have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated." 62 Jefferson, in his project...
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The Virginia Negro Artisan and Tradesman, Volume 103

Raymond Bennett Pinchbeck - African Americans - 1926 - 160 pages
...America. Most of them indeed have been born and confined to tillage, and to their own society, yet many have been so situated that they might have availed...have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from the circumstance have been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have...
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The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States

Winthrop D. Jordan - History - 1974 - 260 pages
...been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society; yet many have been so situated, they might have availed themselves of the conversation...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries...
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The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-century ...

Mechal Sobel - History - 1987 - 380 pages
...(Slave John Hemings, their student, became a master craftsman.) Jefferson noted that "many [slaves) have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites."33 From that same circumstance, many whites were associated...
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A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America

Frank Shuffelton - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 295 pages
...developed culture has failed to stimulate blacks removed from their supposedly savage African context: [M]any have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been literally educated, and all have lived in countries...
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Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861

Alan Gallay - History - 1994 - 440 pages
...of them, indeed, have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society; yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries...
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A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution

John P. Kaminski, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution - History - 1995 - 310 pages
...Most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries...
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800

Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated, they might have availed themselves of the conversation...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries...
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