On Whites and Blacks:
"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [the Blacks] 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. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation, peaceably, and in such slow degree, as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be ...filled up by free White laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up."
-From Thomas Jefferson's autobiography, first published by his grandson, Thomas
Jefferson Randolph in 1829 and again published by special Act of Congress in 1853. Quoted
from page 51, dated January 6, 1821
On Jefferson's Ideas of White Racial Dominance and Racial Separation:
"The struggle to make one nation of America's original two--black and white--is an enterprise that might never succeed, and that America's founders did not believe was possible. After all, Thomas Jefferson's pluralist vision, which established a standard of religious and political tolerance to which Americans still aspire, didn't extend to the black race. Jefferson's apologists are fond of quoting his statement, about black men and women, that "nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." But they fail to quote his concluding clause: "Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government." Jefferson hated slavery because he knew it to be wrong, but he also hated it because it brought black people to America. Convinced that blacks were alien, inferior, and dangerous, Jefferson had a vision for America that required that they be not only emancipated but also expelled from the country. Advocating a program of ethnic cleansing, he was determined that blacks be removed "beyond the reach of mixture." Thus Jefferson's notions of democracy, upon which our ideals of pluralism are founded, depended not merely on racial supremacy but on racial homogeneity."
-From Atlantic Monthly, May 1995, The Diversity Myth by Benjamin Schwarz
Historian Discusses Jefferson's Recommendation for Race-Mixing White Women:
"Jefferson's vision of the future America--after the hypothetical abolition of slavery by the slaveowners themselves--is a lily-white one. All the ex-slaves are to be deported to Africa. In the meantime, free blacks have to be eliminated from Virginia. Jefferson's proposals for their elimination were too draconian to be stomached even by his fellow slaveowners (above, chapter 7). His proposed (and rejected) amendments to the Virginian legal code included a recommendation for the penalization of what Virginian slaveowners called "miscegenation": by which they always mean sexual intercourse between black men and white women, never between white men and black women, an event of frequent but unmentionable occurrence.
"Jefferson made provision for the case of a white woman who might bear a mulatto child. Both the mother and her child were to leave Virginia, immediately after the birth. In the event of their failure to do so, mother and child were declared to be "beyond the protection of the law." In the circumstances, that proposition was a license for lynching: for the physical destruction of mother and child by any Virginian who might care to do the job. Volunteers would not be lacking."
-The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 Conor
Cruise O'Brien Cloth, 384 pages, pp. 301-25