...and self-preservation in the other."57 Similarly, in an 1821 statement he makes this famous comment: Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [those enslaved] are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live...

...slave trade. He described slavery as a "cruel war against human nature." Later, he also wrote that "nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [slaves] are to be free." Jefferson's opinions on slavery were different from his practices. Jefferson...

..."originally a distinct race, or made distinct III by time and circumstances." If that was so, he reasoned, "nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government."56 Some historians today argue that...

...and our maimed veterans as fit subjects of derision." — Confederate States General Patrick Cleburne "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of...equally free, cannot live in the same government." ~ Thomas Jefferson •"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is in extending...

...natural law. Nor did Jefferson have much doubt as to what the future portended with regard to slavery: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." In 1779 Jefferson and other leading Virginians proposed a scheme for the gradual abolition of slavery...

...schreibt er 1821 in seiner Autobiographie im Kapitel Revisals of the Law über afroamerikanische Sklaven: „Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." 15 Allerdings relativiert er den Wert seiner Aussage sogleich durch die Einschränkung „the two races,...

...himself. The final statement on slavery at the Jefferson Memorial, "Nothing is LIES ACROSS AMERICA — 311 more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free," comes from his "Autobiography," written in 1821 when Jefferson was an old man. To present a Jefferson...

...abolition in the Virginia State Legislature. At the age of seventy-seven he wrote in his autobiography: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these Negroes are to be free." But then, disconcerting to the modern mind, he proposes emancipation and deportation...

...even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate...live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process...

...races would never form a single society: 'Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain...live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them'.37 Emancipation eventually came in the middle...