Thomas Jefferson And Emancipation Reform - 1382 Words

Thomas Jefferson Emancipation Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are our natural rights as citizens of the United States of America. Our founding fathers instilled those rights in our Declaration of Independence, so we all could enjoy our freedom of life and pursue anything that brought us happiness. But who is we? Thomas Jefferson, the author of those famous words wanted a society of freedom, but it didn’t apply to everyone in the new founded union. Thomas Jefferson viewed the African American slaves as a lesser people; they were physically and mentally inferior in comparison to all white Americans. Jefferson supported the emancipation to free the slaves, but he believed they needed to be colonized elsewhere after freedom as†¦show more content†¦Thus, no African American child would be born free in the United States. He or she would have been emancipated after he or she has reached the specific age, and then would have been deported to a colony away from h is or her parents. Colonization in Africa allowed the two races to live and prosper separately, and notably with an enormous ocean that conveniently stretches many thousands of miles between the two continents. Jefferson believed it was crucial for this process to not only be gradual, but the colonization is truly what saved either race from annihilation. He continued to write, â€Å"deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made†¦ will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of one of the other race† (Jefferson 669). In his mind, this emancipation plan was the only way for the two races to survive successfully, because if they lived together then the inherent differences between the supreme white race and inferior black race would cause