For a founding father who usually took a sunny view of his nation’s prospects, it was a darkly pessimistic prophesy. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson argued that if – as he hoped – America’s black slaves were one day set free, the result would be conflict and an inevitable descent into racial war.
尽管托马斯•杰斐逊(Thomas Jefferson)是一位通常对国家前景持乐观看法的国父，但他曾提出一则充满阴郁悲观味道的预言。在《弗吉尼亚笔记》(Notes on the State of Virginia)一书中，杰斐逊指出，如果就像他所希望的那样，有一天美国黑奴获得了自由，那么将会爆发冲突，并且不可避免地演变为种族战争。
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