...struggled with the world he knew. In yet another letter he said, Nothing is more certainly ivritten in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Slavery would end — his words would help make it happen. Time, which outlives all things, will outlive...

...this made the expulsion of free blacks all the more pressing. In a revealing passage Jefferson wrote, "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of...have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them."131 In his attitudes on race, Jefferson was thus bound by the two great ruling principles of...

...worked to push black mariners off the sea. Racial Governmentality: The African Colonization Movement Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate...equally free, cannot live in the same government. The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson You propose my returning to Africa with Bristol Yamma and John...

...Africa or to Haiti. There was no place for them in close proximity to whites: "Nothing," he wrote, "is more certainly written in the book of fate than...equally free, cannot live in the same government." If set free and not removed, wrote Jefferson, the blacks would be so ferocious that "all the Whites...

...Africa or to I laiti. There was no place for them in close proximity to whites: "Nothing," he wrote, "is more certainly written in the book of fate than...certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live m the same goverument." If set free and not removed, wrote Jefferson, the blacks would be so ferocious...

...God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." A peaceful-looking scene, a great ideal made visible. But beyond it what problems— almost insoluble,...

...racial integration. In one of Jefferson's most famous passages, he started on the hopeful note that "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free," but he then left no doubt as to his true sentiments when he added, "nor is it less certain that the...

...henceforth coming into the country. Reflecting on his failure to win passage for this clause, he wrote, "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." Expressing astonishment that individuals who would do anything to liberate themselves from the bondage...

...society itself created by governmental political reason. When he writes in the Autohiography passage that "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that [our slaves] are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in...

..."Nothing is more surely written in the book of fate," Jefferson had written and Reverend Durbin repeated, "than that these people are to be free; nor is it...direct the process of emancipation and deportation peacefully, and in such slow degrees as that evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pan...