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Thomas Jefferson, our third president, explained that infrastructure improvements could only be accomplished by the states.
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That, as Thomas Jefferson explained to a visiting Englishman, they were “made to carry burthens.” In “Notes on the State of Virginia,” he wrote that his Black slaves were “inferior in the faculties of reason and imagination.” To free them would be like “abandoning children,” he wrote in a 1789 letter.
