"Jefferson's part in writing the Declaration of Independence, his insistence on the elimination of slavery in America, and his statute on religious freedom in Virginia were essential to America's existence as a new path-breaking nation.  Without Jefferson's influence, Alexander Hamilton's views on monarchy might have succeeded, and America would have resembled Europe politically."

"Almost the first utterances against Negro slavery came from German settlers in Pennsylvania [Rosicrucian perfecti involved?]
. . . .  the conscience of thoughtful men in the colonies was never quite easy upon this score, and it was one of the accusations of Thomas Jefferson against the crown and and lords of Great Britain that every attempt to ameliorate or restrain the slave trade on the part of the colonists had been checked by the great proprietary interests in the mother-country.  In 1776 Lord Dartmouth wrote that the colonists could not be allowed 'to check or discourage a traffic so beneficent to the nation [Great Britain].'"