 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1995 - 376 páginas
...acknowledging receipt of the ephemerides, Jefferson wrote: "No body wishes more than I do to see such pnx)fs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men" and that "the appearance of a want of ... [those talents] is merely owing to the degraded... | |
 | Beatrice Lumpkin, Dorothy Strong - 1995 - 212 páginas
...Banneker sent his almanac to Thomas Jefferson. In his reply, Jefferson praised the almanac as proof "that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men." Banneker continued his almanac calculations almost to the time he died, in 1806. He... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - 764 páginas
...Ifet Jefferson wrote Benjamin Banneker on August 30, 1791, "Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of other colors of man, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition... | |
 | Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann - 1998 - 200 páginas
..."comprehending the investigations of Euclid" — Jefferson wrote: "No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to 18 Jefferson, Notes of the State of Virginia, pp. 268-69. 19 Ibid., pp. 269. 20 Ibid., pp. 270. those... | |
 | David Johnston - 1996 - 215 páginas
...beings everywhere are "created equal" — he says that "nobody wishes more than I do to see proofs that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a lack of them is owing merely to the degraded condition... | |
 | Ashley Montagu - 1997 - 308 páginas
...mathematician,1"" praising the latter's almanac, Jefferson wrote, No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our...black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition... | |
 | Larry E. Tise - 1998 - 690 páginas
...alluded strongly to the almanac maker's race and origins: "No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit. that nature has given to our...black brethren. talents equal to those of the other colors of men. and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition... | |
 | Arthur D. Austin - 1998 - 235 páginas
...source of racism and exclusion. Thomas Jefferson authored the white man's manifesto by demanding proof "that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men." Williams sees slavery as robbing Blacks of a sense of self. "The black slave experience... | |
 | Will W. Allen - 1998 - 88 páginas
...letter of the 19th instant, and for the almanac it contained. Nobody wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded... | |
 | Michael Rosen - 1999 - 114 páginas
...letter oí the 19th instant and for the Almanac it contained. No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our...black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded conditions... | |
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Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their... 
