EP. 03 Thomas Jefferson
Uncancelled History
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The Polygenesis of the New World
There was an aesthetic dimension to his study of black people. He found them ugly and made invidious comparisons with ancient slaves. And he said, it may very well be that they are less intelligent. There's one place in the notes where he speculates that blacks may be the missing link in the evolutionary chain.
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