Thomas Jefferson’s Racism, 1788
Thomas Jefferson’s Racism, 1788 American racism spread during the first decades after the American Revolution. Racial prejudice existed for centuries, but the belief that African-descended peoples were inherently and permanently inferior to Anglo-descended peoples developed sometime around the late eighteenth century. Writings such as this piece from Thomas Jefferson fostered faulty scientific reasoning to justify … Continue reading Thomas Jefferson’s Racism, 1788
Copy and paste this URL into your WordPress site to embed
Copy and paste this code into your site to embed