Thomas Jefferson: A Product Of His Times Or A Hypocrite?

Part I of Essay
? Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite. He was not only a leader, but he was a follower. Thomas Jefferson did not believe in miscegenation. Miscegenation is the mixing of two races. He believed that whites could not compete with the blacks in sexual behavior. He said that i ....

Part II of Essay
.... believed that the Native Americans had higher order of intelligence and imagination than he found in Afro-Americans. The Native Americans seemed to Jefferson to be happier than the oppressed and degraded peasantry of Europe. Jefferson compared the studies of Native American languages and came to a conclusion that there were twenty basic languages and that the Native Americans had lived in the New World for a far longer period than anyone had thought. The native Americans had proved that strong government was not necessary to the happ ....