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“The pervasive doctrine of white supremacy supposedly inoculated whites against the will to interracial mixing, but that doctrine proved to be unreliable when matched against the force of human sexuality. People are prone to having sex, especially when they are in daily contact with potential objects of sexual attraction. That inclination has permeated every slave society, every frontier society, and every colonial society that has ever existed.”

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Book:The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian renowned for her research on slavery and race relations. Born on November 19, 1958, she graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. Her work, 'The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family', which explores the complex relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. more

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