Imagery Thomas Jefferson Summary

Jefferson shifts his article to the physical objections of blacks compared to the whites by slightly incorporating a scientific language in order to create a sense of credibility in his words. Jefferson uses imageries to illustrate how blacks are being put down, comparing the “fine mixtures of red and white...of every passion” (380) which are more “preferable” (380) than to the “immovable veil of black which covers the emotions of the other race.” (380) He also continues to associate blacks to be the same as animals, with “the pulmonary apparatus,..discovered to be the principal regulator of animal heat.” (380) Jefferson then criticizes the blacks’ common sense, saying how “after hard labor through the day, [they] will be induced by the slightest