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<p>[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 1565355, member: 301"]<i><b>Notes on the State of Virginia</b></i> (1785) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book" rel="nofollow">book</a> written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" rel="nofollow">Thomas Jefferson</a>. He completed the first version in 1781, and updated and enlarged the book in 1782 and 1783. <i>Notes on the State of Virginia</i> originated in Jefferson's responding to questions about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" rel="nofollow">Virginia</a>, posed to him in 1780 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Barb%C3%A9-Marbois" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Barb%C3%A9-Marbois" rel="nofollow">François Barbé-Marbois</a>, then Secretary of the French delegation in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" rel="nofollow">Philadelphia</a>, the temporary capital of the United Colonies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Widely considered the most important American book published before 1800,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> <i>Notes on the State of Virginia</i> is both a compilation of data by Jefferson about the state's natural resources and economy, and his vigorous argument about the nature of the good society, which he believed was incarnated by Virginia. He expressed his beliefs in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" rel="nofollow">separation of church and state</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_government" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_government" rel="nofollow">constitutional government</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checks_and_balances" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checks_and_balances" rel="nofollow">checks and balances</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_liberty" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_liberty" rel="nofollow">individual liberty</a>. He wrote extensively about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" rel="nofollow">slavery</a>, the problems of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation" rel="nofollow">miscegenation</a>, a justification of white supremacy, and his belief that whites and blacks could not live together in a free society.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was the only full-length book which Jefferson published during his lifetime. He first published it anonymously in Paris in 1785, where he was serving the US government as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_representative" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_representative" rel="nofollow">trade representative</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockdale" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockdale" rel="nofollow">John Stockdale</a> published the book in its first English edition in 1787 in London.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 1565355, member: 301"][I][B]Notes on the State of Virginia[/B][/I] (1785) is a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book']book[/URL] written by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson']Thomas Jefferson[/URL]. He completed the first version in 1781, and updated and enlarged the book in 1782 and 1783. [I]Notes on the State of Virginia[/I] originated in Jefferson's responding to questions about [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia']Virginia[/URL], posed to him in 1780 by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Barb%C3%A9-Marbois']François Barbé-Marbois[/URL], then Secretary of the French delegation in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia']Philadelphia[/URL], the temporary capital of the United Colonies. Widely considered the most important American book published before 1800,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia#cite_note-1'][1][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia#cite_note-2'][2][/URL] [I]Notes on the State of Virginia[/I] is both a compilation of data by Jefferson about the state's natural resources and economy, and his vigorous argument about the nature of the good society, which he believed was incarnated by Virginia. He expressed his beliefs in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state']separation of church and state[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_government']constitutional government[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checks_and_balances']checks and balances[/URL], and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_liberty']individual liberty[/URL]. He wrote extensively about [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery']slavery[/URL], the problems of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation']miscegenation[/URL], a justification of white supremacy, and his belief that whites and blacks could not live together in a free society. It was the only full-length book which Jefferson published during his lifetime. He first published it anonymously in Paris in 1785, where he was serving the US government as [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_representative']trade representative[/URL]. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockdale']John Stockdale[/URL] published the book in its first English edition in 1787 in London.[/QUOTE]
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