For a founding father who usually took a sunny view of his nation’s prospects, it was a darkly pessimistic prophesy. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson argued that if – as he hoped – America’s black slaves were one day set free, the result would be conflict and an inevitable descent into racial war.
盡管托馬斯?杰斐遜(Thomas Jefferson)是一位通常對國家前景持樂觀看法的國父，但他曾提出一則充滿陰郁悲觀味道的預言。在《弗吉尼亞筆記》(Notes on the State of Virginia)一書中，杰斐遜指出，如果就像他所希望的那樣，有一天美國黑奴獲得了自由，那么將會爆發沖突，并且不可避免地演變為種族戰爭。
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