 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
 | Joy Hakim - 2002 - 238 pages
...sincerely for your letter of the 19th instant, and for the Almanac it contained. Nobody wishes more ofs las than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given our black brethren talents equal to those of other colours of men, and that the appearance of a want... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - 562 pages
...appeared to soften the stance he had taken in the Notes. "Nobody wishes more than I do," he observed, "to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of other colours of men, and that the appearance of a want of them... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - 1996 - 416 pages
...you, sincerely, for your letter of the 19th instant, 4 and for 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 the want of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 pages
...Banneker, an African-American scientist who had sent Jefferson a copy of his almanac. 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... | |
 | Robert David Sack - 2003 - 316 pages
...mathematician Benjamin Banneker. After examining some of his work, Jefferson wrote to Banneker: "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 want of them... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 pages
...the moon, eclipses, and tide tables. On August 30, 1 79 1 , Jefferson answered: 108 [N]o 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 colours of men, & that the appearance of a want of them... | |
 | Charles J. Ogletree - 2004 - 412 pages
...the same family, and stand in the same relation to him.25 Jefferson replied, in part, 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 colours of men, 8c that the appearance of a want of them... | |
 | Patricia C. Kenschaft - 2005 - 226 pages
...equal abilities and value under God of those of African descent.21 Jefferson responded, "Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to the other colors of men. . . nobody wishes more ardently to see a good system... | |
 | Carroll W. Pursell - 2005 - 430 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 the want of... | |
 | Andrew Burstein - 2005 - 376 pages
...darkening and sullying the continent. Though he equivocated in a letter to Banneker — "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" — Jefferson wanted, again in Professor... | |
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