1Extract from Martha Jefferson Randolph to Nicholas P. Trist, 7 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to Jefferson your idea of removing the negroes to a country where they would be so much more profitable, he assented at once to the advantage of such a step, but said what I knew to be the fact that his Grandfather would never lissen listen to such a proposal it for a moment , a l though moving them in a body it would occasion little or no distress to them, not a tenth part which a...