This paper is an overall review of the treatment of black slaves and American Indians during Thomas Jefferson's Presidency. I turned this paper in for my US History up to 1865 college course.
Should a man suffer condemnation for his thoughts or views? This is a question that one may pose while studying the Jeffersonian era. Did our third President, Thomas Jefferson, allow his personal mission towards developing a Republican society leak into his Presidency to the point where blacks and Indians would pay for his beliefs? If so, to what extent did his beliefs have an effect on blacks and American Indians of the early nineteenth century? …
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…generation and see that as our views change, our humanitarian efforts and a strive to do what is right also change for the better. Fortunate for black and Indian citizens, certain protections that Jefferson would have never afforded to them have been granted today in a democratic society.
References:
John Hollitz, Thinking Through the Past: Volume 1: To 1877, Second Edition, (Houghton Mifflin Company; Boston, 2001) Pp. 96-118.
Parallel discussion - A Biography of America, videocassette teaching materials.
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