Mr. Jefferson in 1820 wrote:
"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that
these people are to be free; nor is it less certain than that the
two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature,
habit, opinion, have drawn indelible lines of distinction between
them."[98]
Writing to Jared Sparks, President of Harvard College, in 1824, he
said:
"In the disposition of these unfortunate people there are two
rational objects to be distinctly kept in view. First, the
establishment of a colony on the coast of Africa, which may
introduce among the aborigines the arts of cultivated life and the
blessings of liberty and science. By doing this, we may make them
some retribution for the long course of injuries we have been
committing on their population.... Second object, and the most
interesting to us, as coming home to our physical and moral
characters, to our happiness and safety, is to provide an asylum to
which we can, by degrees, send the whole of that population from
among us, and establish them under our patronage and protection, as
a separate, free, and independent people, in some country and
climate friendly to human life and happiness."[99]