Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia speaks about three general topics; social, political, and economical. Specifically I want to focus on the social aspect he writes about in Query XIV. In this section, Jefferson writes about his views on the African American society. Jefferson does not specifically states whether he supports slavery or not, but he does acknowledges that there are “real distinctions which nature has made, and other circumstances that will divide blacks and whites into parties” (162). Jefferson believed that African American were inferior to whites in terms of beauty and intelligence. Maybe if African Americans could physical look more like their white counter-partners or possesses more white mannerism then maybe
