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Enlightenment Influence:
Racism in Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781:
In his only published book, Jefferson recorded his views on race. Like many other 18th-century thinkers, Jefferson suspected blacks were inferior to whites. He wrote, "I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind." |