Thomas Jefferson's Vision For The Nation: A Perfect, Homogenous Republic

Thomas Jefferson’s vision for the nation was a perfect, homogenous Republic. He believed everyone in the nation had to be equal, speak the same language, and live the same. Those that followed their sense of moral were fit to be in this nation, but those that could not could not stay. He saw slavery as white men violating African American rights, but also as white men not being able to control themselves. Thomas Jefferson saw African Americans as a threat to this perfect society, that even if slavery was to be abolished, African Americans would have to leave their nation. To coexist with a white nation, Jefferson thought any “inferior” group would have to assimilate to white ways. Many things prevented the assimilation of African Americans,