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Thomas Jefferson's Writings



Description of the Art Work

"A Summary View of the Rights of British America Set Forth in Some Resolutions Intended for Inspection of the Present Delegate of the People of Virginia, now in Convention. By a Native, and Member of the House of Burgesses.", 1774: pamphlet on the Rights of British America. He says "Our emigration to this country gave England no more rights over us than the emigration of the Danes and the Saxons gave to the present authorities of their mother country over England."

"Melanges Politiques et Philosophiques. Extraits des Memoires et de la Correspondence de T. Jefferson."

Description of incident

1774 England: These writings were printed by sympathetic friends, without Jefferson's knowledge. It contained material rejected by the Virginia Constitutional Convention.

Results of incident

1774 England: Popular in America, the British edition caused the proscription of Jefferson's name by the English House of Parliament. 1833 Russia: "Melanges Politiques et Philosophiques. Extraits des Memoires et de la Correspondence de T. Jefferson" was banned for political reasons under Nicholas I.


Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B. 

Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.


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