Response To Thomas Jefferson Passage Analysis

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Jefferson begins his passage by introducing the approaches to end the discord between the whites and African Americans. He proposes an alteration to “emancipate all slaves born after the passing of the act” (379) so that when grown up and strong enough, they can be sent to a separate colony. Jefferson also addresses questions that may be brought up within these alterations such as, “Why not retain...blacks into the State, and thus [saving] the expense of supplying by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave?” (379) In response, Jefferson explains that racial conflict will continue to develop until there is an “extermination of the one or the other race” (380) in order to scare the white audience of what would happen if a