 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 of their...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 319edited by - 1793Full view - About this book
 | 1863 - 804 pages
...you sincerely for your letter of the 19th instant, and for 83 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 those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them... | |
 | Winthrop D. Jordan - 1974 - 260 pages
...courteously. Both letters were almost immediately published as a pamphlet. No body [Jefferson wrote] 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... | |
 | August Meier, Elliott Rudwick - 1976 - 422 pages
...the commission that surveyed the site for the national capital. To Banneker he wrote, "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 colours of men, and that the appearance of a want of them... | |
 | Charles B. Sanford - 1984 - 260 pages
...him, offering to forward the almanac to the French Academy of Science, and commented, "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."70 Jefferson's Involvement in Slavery... | |
 | Frank Shuffelton - 1993 - 295 pages
...phrase suggesting that he was not yet convinced. Benjamin Banneker is thus assured, "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," but Jefferson then goes on to say that... | |
 | James Giblin - 1994 - 104 pages
...you sincerely for your letter of 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... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1997 - 378 pages
...disposed" to black people. In acknowledging receipt of the ephemerides, 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 ...... | |
 | Dorothy Porter, Dorothy Porter Wesley - 1995 - 686 pages
...obedient humble servant, BENJAMIN BANNEKER. To Mr. BENJAMIN BANNEKEH. Philadelphia, August 30, 1791. SIR, 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 the want of... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - 764 pages
...anomalous." Ibid., pp. 139, 143. 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... | |
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