{"citing_quote": "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.", "sha256": "9725aa4e445e23a755e34c3f6f3416b0e3e1e242f5e41e495ef52466d3a4f8bc", "citing_url": "https://www.citeit.net/2020/12/27/show-your-readers-the-context-of-your-quotations/", "cited_url": "http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jeffauto.asp", "citing_context_before": "ual Citations: Often when I read a quotation, I think to myself, \"that's a nice quote, but I wonder what it says two sentences prior, or two sentences after the quote. In other words, what's that context, and how do I know that this quote wasn't cherry-picked? Jefferson Memorial: Cherry Picked Quotation Example: Cherry-Picked Quotes In Washington DC, the Jefferson Memorial has a badly cherry-picked quote etched into the northeastern wall. Here is the quote: (click blue arrows to expand context) ", "cited_context_before": " & general emancipation. It was thought better that this should be kept back, and attempted only by way of amendment whenever the bill should be brought on. The principles of the amendment however were agreed on, that is to say, the freedom of all born after a certain day, and deportation at a proper age. But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. ", "citing_context_after": " Yale Law Library That sounds great, but it's just an excerpt. Using CiteIt.net, I can link the quote to the source's full text found in the online version of the Yale Law Library: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jeffauto.asp View Quote Context: This allows the reader to see the following context when they click on the blue down arrow (see quote above): Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation If you look at the context above the original quote, by clicking on the blue up arrow, you can see Jefferson had argued that slaves \"born after a certain date\" should be freed and deported \"at a proper age\". Combat Fake News Accusations Sometimes added context changes everything. A Higher Standard: Differentiate from \"Fake News\": Given how CiteIt.net exposes out-of-context quotations", "cited_context_after": " Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pari passu filled up by free white laborers. If on the contrary it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up. We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish deportation or deletion of the Moors. This precedent would fall far short of our case. I considered 4 of these bills, passed or reported, as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican. The repeal of the laws of entail would prevent the accumulation and perpetuation of wealth in select families, and preserve the soil of the country from being daily", "cited_quote": "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.", "hashkey": "Nothingismorecertainlywritteninthebookoffatethanthatthesepeoplearetobefree.|www.citeit.net/2020/12/27/show-your-readers-the-context-of-your-quotations|avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jeffauto.asp"}