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Essay / Hollitz 6 - 592
How were Jefferson's views on each group related to his fears about the preservation of republican society? What policies did Jefferson advocate toward each other? According to the article “In the “Wombs” of the Republic (1979)” by Ronald T. Takaki, Jefferson expelled the British “enemy” from the “bowels.” Jefferson did this because of his concern for moral purity in republican society. Jefferson expressed it to James Monroe, several years after the British had been expelled; he wanted the American continent to speak the same language, be governed in a similar form, and live with similar laws. Where he forced them, the British created greater pressure to force the other "enemies" of the "underbelly" to leave. Jefferson feared that immigrants would explode into “unlimited libertinage,” which would bring down the curtains of the new republic. He also feared that if men did not obey their moral sense and exercise self-control, they would “live haphazardly” and destroy the republican order. According to Jefferson, slavery was not only a violation of black people's rights to freedom, it also damaged their self-esteem....