nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.

—Thomas Jefferson's Autobiography [Draft], 6 Jan.-21 July 1821  {More}

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.

—Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782  {More}

As far as I can judge from the experiments which have been made to give liberty to, or rather, to abandon persons whose habits have been formed in slavery is like abandoning children.

—Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 26 Jan. 1789  {More}

nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.

—Thomas Jefferson's Autobiography [Draft], 6 Jan.-21 July 1821  {More}

…there is nothing I would not sacrifice to a practicable plan of abolishing every vestige of this moral and political depravity.

—Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 10 Sept. 1814  {More}

I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state for suspending the importation of slaves, …this abomination must have an end, and there is a superior bench reserved in heaven for those who hasten it.

—Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, 14 July 1787  {More}