Thomas Jefferson reading pgs 34-41

When I studied Thomas Jefferson in grade school, I though he was a good president because he came up with the Declaration of Independence. As a college student I look at him in a new light. He was the biggest hypocrite. He always contradicted himself. In my opinion he wanted to make himself look like a good guy, but only to the white man.
Thomas Jefferson grew up around slavery his father Peter Jefferson owned several tobacco plantations and who do you think worked on those plantations? Slaves. He was a critic and a defender of the native land.In the reading it states that his writing was persuasive, and I couldn’t agree anymore. To me he was trying to impress Virginia and the rest of the nation. He had the idea of freedom of religion, freedom of education and equal representation of the law. There is no way this related to all men. Probably all white men because even after the fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of Independence when Thomas Jefferson died he still owned over one hundred slaves.
I laugh when I hear that he stated that all me are equal. I think that he believed that all white men are created equal. Better yet I believe that he meant all white men that own land are created equal, and by owning land you are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the Declaration by the Representatives, he said “For the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood”, to me he was talking about himself. He talked about freedom this and freedom that but in the end there was still slavery ( Andrews ,1998 pgs 34-41).

Citations

Andrews , William L (1998). The Literature of the American
South. Noth Carolina: W.W. Norton and Company.

what i think about the south and John Smith pg 14-20 reading assignment

When I think about the south I think of good and bad things. The good things that i think about are good southern cooking. I think of hot weather. People are nicer and they have of southern hospitatlity. When bad things cross my mind I think of racism and the K.K.K. because I know there is alot of them in the south. Another thing is that there is alot of storms. People live at a slower pace. I am a city girl so i dont think i would like it there very much.John smith pgs 16-20 reading assignmentThe tonefor this reading is that John is preaching. He is a bully is is trying to put is beliefs in the natives. Colonizing is a tribute to England. They believe that the most important thing is to be a landowner and cultivate. He is tying to make the natives think that it is mans duty to cultivate, and that it should be a pleasure to cultivate Gods land.Thus he is pushing the natives to colonize and farm in a religious way.He also talks about the pains and pleasures of life. He wants the Natives to be more like him. The Irony in this is that John smith felt like he was bullied in England so he left but then he goes to Verginia and tries to impose his beliefs on them. The sense of invading and trying to change peoples way is clonizing. In my opinion John smith and George Bush have alot in common