Promissory Note Sample

1787 Stockdale edition of Notes on the State of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. Although the country was in the throes of revolution, Jefferson apparently began writing soon after receiving the list of queries, and in November reported he was busily occupied with the task.

Jefferson originally composed the work in 1781 in answer to queries posed by a French diplomat, and then revised and expanded it into a description and defense of the young United States as interpreted through a Virginia lens.

How does Jefferson describe the effect of slavery on the morals and behavior of white Virginians? White Virginians children watch their parents, and grow up learning and doing what the parent says.He uses the analogy between slaves and women because white males viewed both as being inferior.

Notes on the State of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson, is at once a compendium of information about the state and a sweeping commentary on natural history, society, politics, education, religion, slavery, liberty, and law. Many consider it the most important American book written before 1800.

Throughout his entire life, Thomas Jefferson was publicly a consistent opponent of slavery. Calling it a moral depravity1 and a hideous blot,2 he believed that slavery presented the greatest threat to the survival of the new American nation.

Notes on the State of Virginia is both a compilation of data by Jefferson about the state's natural resources and economy and his vigorous argument about the nature of the good society, which he believed to be incarnated by Virginia.It was the only full-length book that Jefferson published during his lifetime.

Notes on the State of Virginia is both a compilation of data by Jefferson about the state's natural resources and economy and his vigorous argument about the nature of the good society, which he believed to be incarnated by Virginia.