Autobiography: On the Bill Establishing Religious Freedom

“Jefferson’s Autobiography,” The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/73r6. The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in […]

The President’s Duties

The President’s Duties. By the Constitution, he is the Executive of the Government. By the Constitution, he is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. By the Constitution, he […]

The Struggle for an Education

ONE day, while at work in the coal-mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia. This was the first time […]