ived and expended. But an equivalent of lands in the
territories since acquired may be appropriated to that object, or
so much, at least, as may be sufficient; and the object, although
more important to the slave States, is highly so to the others
also, if they were serious in their arguments on the Missouri
question. The slave States, too, if more interested, would also
contribute more by their gratutious liberation, thus taking on
themselves alone the first and heaviest item of expense.[59]

As the proper place for the colonization of emancipated blacks seemed
quite a problem, almost any seemingly desirable place was recommended.
Santo Domingo proved to be attractive after the bloody scenes of the
revolution had passed away.

In the plan sketched in the _Notes on Virginia_, no particular
place of asylum was specified; because it was thought possible
that in the revolutionary state of America, then commenced,
events might open to us some one within practicable distance.
This has now happened. Santo Domingo has become independent, and
with a population of that color only; and if the public papers
are to be credited, their Chief offers to pay their passage, to
receive them as free citizens, and to provide them employment.
This leaves, then, for the general confederacy, no expense but
that of nurture with the mother for a few years, and would call,
of course, for a very moderate appropriation of the vacant
lands.... In this way no violation of private right is
proposed.[60]

III.

In his _Notes on Virginia_ Jefferson discusses all of the phases of
slavery as they appeared to him at that time. He took up the
justification of the institution of slavery among the Romans, the
enslavement of the Indian and the Negroes, the cause of the increase
in slaves, and the effects of the same on both the masters and the
enslaved.[61]

An inhuman practice once prevailed in this country, of making
slaves of the Indians. This practice commenced with the Spaniards
with the first discovery of America.[62]

Under the mild treatment our slaves experience, and their
wholesome, though coarse food, this blot in our country increase
as fast, or faster than the whites.[63]

We know that among the Romans, about the Augustan age especially,
the condition of their slaves was much more deplorable than th