Thomas Jefferson Quote

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. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.


Autobiography (1821) in notes describing some of the debates of 1779 on slavery.


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...

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...

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...

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...