This is just further proof that you don't know what you are talking about because when Thomas Jefferson said All men are created equal he was not talking about race! I'm so sick of seeing anti's on here spouting that stuff. He was talking about social classes of whites, because in Europe they were not equal and they didn't want that in the States. He had slaves, he didn't see blacks as equal.    Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [blacks] are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free,  cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them .   --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:72         Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history.  When freed, he is to be removed beyond the reach of mixture .  --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIV, 1782. ME 2:201           My opinion on the proposition...  to take measures for procuring on the coast of Africa, an establishment to which the people of color of these States might, from time to time, be colonized , under the auspices of different governments [is]: Having long ago made up my mind on this subject, I have no hesitation in saying that I have ever thought it the most desirable measure which could be adopted for gradually drawing off this part of our population,  most advantageous for themselves as well as for us. Going from a country possessing all the useful arts, they might be the means of transplanting them among the inhabitants of Africa, and would thus carry back to the country of their origin the seeds of civilization  which might render their sojournment and sufferings here a blessing in the end to that country.   --Thomas Jefferson to John Lynch, 1811. ME 13:10          I concur entirely in [the] leading principles of gradual emancipation, of establishment on the coast of Africa, and the patronage of our nation until the emigrants shall be able to protect themselves ... Personally, I am ready and desirous to make any sacrifice which shall ensure their gradual but complete retirement from the State, and effectually, at the same time, establish them elsewhere in freedom and safety.   --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Humphreys, 1817. ME 15:102         Indeed, nothing is more to be wished than that the United States would themselves undertake to make such an establishment on the coast of Africa. Exclusive of motives of humanity, the commercial advantages to be derived from it might repay all its expenses.   --Thomas Jefferson to John Lynch, 1811. ME 13:12         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: Notes on Virginia Q.XIV, 1782. ME 2:192       http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/...s/jeff1290.htm