I had earlier read Query XIV in Thomas Jefferson's NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA (1785), wherein he asserts the inherent intellectual inferiority of blacks (which Benjamin Banneker refuted in an exchange of correspondence with him in 1791), but I had not read Query XVIII, until tonight. Dr. Joy DeGruy, author of POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME (2005) quotes critical portions of it in her epilogue to her masterfully written book that I also finished tonight. Read her book and both Queries from Thomas Jefferson's classic!
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-query-xviii-manners/
I had earlier read Query XIV in Thomas Jefferson's NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA (1785), wherein he asserts the inherent intellectual inferiority of blacks (which Benjamin Banneker refuted in an exchange of correspondence with him in 1791), but I had not read Query XVIII, until tonight. Dr. Joy DeGruy, author of POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME (2005) quotes critical portions of it in her epilogue to her masterfully written book that I also finished tonight. Read her book and both Queries from Thomas Jefferson's classic!
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-query-xviii-manners/
