I know this has been a popular phrase to annotate, but I can't read it without commenting. The phrasing of the entire preceding passage I find odd - the fact that they would place this line about slaves after explaining the entirety of the physical property of a possible university in Lexington I think says a lot about the nature of the racial climate at UVa's founding. It almost sounds like the slaves are less important or valuable than even the land which is mentioned before them. The fact that the word "also" is used, signals that these slaves were an afterthought, and reinforces the notion that the University was founded with the core principal of providing education in a central location to the white population. I wonder, though, if Jefferson thought about how the University would survive after the inevitable abolition of slavery and of the University's place in the fight to abolish it. -Ben Kava