1. Compare/Contrast Essay Thomas Jefferson/William Apess
Jefferson further expounded on the Indians' ability to speak in his Notes on the State of Virginia: I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of many more prominent orators, if Europe has furnished any more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore when Governor of this State. ... Referencing and comparing Native Americans to classical cultures was a theme that runs throughout Jefferson's musings on Indians. ... In Notes, perhaps Jefferson's greatest scientific work, he listed the tribes with a ...
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