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The Jeffersonian cyclopedia;

a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.;
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
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CHRONOLOGY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
  
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APPENDIX
  
CONTENTS
  
REPLY TO LORD NORTH'S CONCILIATORY PROPOSITION
  
COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE
  
A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA
  
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
  
PREAMBLE TO THE VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION
  
DEBATES ON THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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A BILL FOR ESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
  
KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS
  
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS, March 4, 1801
  
SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS, March 4, 1805
  
ADDRESS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
  
ADDRESS TO THE INHABITANTS OF ALBEMARLE CO., IN VIRGINIA
  
DECLARATION AND PROTEST OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
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ESTRANGEMENT AND RECONCILIATION OF JEFFERSON AND ADAMS
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TOPICAL INDEX WITH CROSS-REFERENCES
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5819. NEGROES, Music.—

In music they
are more generally gifted than the whites, with
accurate ears for tune and time, and they have
been found capable of imagining a small catch. [357] Whether they will be equal to the composition
of a more extensive run of melody, or of complicated
harmony, is yet to be proved.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 383. Ford ed., iii, 246.
(1782)

 
[357]

The instrument proper to them is the Banjer
[corrupted by the negroes into “banjo”] which
they brought hither from Africa, and which is the
original of the guitar, its chords being precisely the
four lower chords of the guitar.—Note by Jefferson.

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