Thomas Jefferson, Charles White, Oliver Goldsmith And Benjamin Rush

During slavery in the United States, African Americans were not treated with respect. For instance, Caucasian people had developed scientific theories to claim that they are superior to African Americans. Some of the Caucasian people that contributed to coming up with theories or ideas that Caucasians was superior to African Americans are Thomas Jefferson, Charles White, Oliver Goldsmith and Benjamin Rush. There were also many Caucasians people in the United States whose behavior reflects the theories of Thomas Jefferson, Charles White, Oliver Goldsmith and Benjamin Rush.
During slavery one of the theories that was created in the United States was that African American people were inferior to Caucasian people. One of the Caucasian people that believed this theory was Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson is one of the former United States presidents that enslaved African Americans. He had his own racist and inaccurate view about African Americans. …show more content…
There were many people in the united States that believe in this theory like Thomas Jefferson. For instance, Southern states believe this was true. Therefore, the claim that Thomas Jefferson made about African American intelligence is not true. African Americans have been successful in in the arts such as dancing, music and poetry. African Americans have also invented many different technologies, receiving college degrees, being able to perform tasks on jobs, etc. For instance one of the African Americans that have shown intelligence was W.E. B Dubois. He was educated by three different colleges. According to Trotter W. Joe “Only Dubois—educated at Fisk University, Harvard, and the University of Berlin—brought university training to the task,” (page