1. Compare/Contrast Essay Thomas Jefferson/William Apess
Are you quick to judge and think that you are better than them just because they are different? ... 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. ... In Notes, perhaps Jefferson's greatest scientific work, he listed the tribes with a fullness and precision that were uncomm...
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- Grade Level: High School