"This will in some measure stop the increase of this great political and moral evil, while the minds of our citizens may be ripening for a complete emancipation of human nature."
Notes on the State of Virginia
Jefferson, Thomas. <U>Thomas Jefferson</U>.
Ed. Merrill D. Peterson. Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States: New York, 1984. <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html">Link</a> to UVA e-text edition. 