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Presents the author's letter to Governor James Monroe of Virginia, dated November 24, 1801 about the resolution passed by the Virginia House of Representatives regarding the accommodation of Negroes in the United States territory. His belief about the importance of the resolution; The more probable and practicable place for the Negroes; More information.

Presents the text of a July 26, 1774 resolution by the freeholders of Albemarle County, Virginia in which they resolved to cease the importation of British goods effective October 1775. The British Parliament's Boston Port Act of 1774 as the reason for the resolution.

The article presents the 1779 draft of a bill, written by American politician Thomas Jefferson in the General Assembly of Virginia, which would establish religious freedom in America. The legislation contains three sections that pertain to civil rights and freedom from religious persecution. The focus is on the rights of individuals to choose their own beliefs and not be required by law to contribute money to religious opinions that they do not believe in. Jefferson makes the assertion that these rights are the "natural rights of mankind."