Seventh, Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia strongly objected to the admixture of white and black blood.63 There is little to suggest a change of mind in his lifetime. Over twenty years later, he writes to politician and antislavery advocate Edward Coles (August 25, 1814), “The amalgamation with the other color produces a degradation to which no lover of his country, no lover of excellence in the human character can innocently consent.”
