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“I don't adhere to the idea that you don't make moral judgments. I think history is a moral profession. We don't just look back and say, oh, and here is how they slaughtered the innocents, and go move on.”

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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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