“It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the State [instead of colonizing them]? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites, ten thousand recollections by the blacks of the injuries they have sustained, new provocations, the real distinctions which nature has made, and many other circumstances will divide us into parties and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.” —Thomas Jefferson:
Was he right or wrong?
Was he right or wrong?
Depends on what he meant by "incorporate." The entirety of the Constitution Jefferson helped create was based on the protection of The People from "incorporation." That act is the creation of a slave - a wholly state-owned human being. What Jefferson was suggesting was to take slaves that were already slaves and shift their ownership to the State, away from their human masters, and thereby "free" them by creating a legal "wardship" status for them, where they would be protected by law.
But if you would have told Jefferson HE should be "incorporated" by the State, or his family, or the rest of the free country, you'd find a gun stuck up your nose so fast you wouldn't be able to sneeze first.
Unfortunately, while the 16th Amendment actualized pretty much Jeffersons idea of slavery incorporation, the 14th Amendment extended that incorporation to free people - and for the most part, they STILL haven't figured it out.
Just recently, the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court TRIED to educate Americans about this issue, and was villified and ignored for his efforts. I wrote about that (in detail) here:
Of course Jefferson was wrong there. There are many mixed race people descended in part from the Jefferson’s and their slaves, and so extinction of one race or the other is not an option.
We have very little genetic difference. Bad history, even more than bad water leads to ill health and death.