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> [“American” women (and a few men) complained that here, wealthy white men sometimes lived with mulatto women until it came time to marry a respectable white one. Such things happened in Virginia—Claiborne knew Thomas Jefferson quite well—but they were usually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/american-women-and-a-few-men-complained-that-here-wealthy-white-men/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

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> [“Some resented the way coffles, driven right through town, put the most unpleasant parts of slavery right in their faces. Others resented the embarrassment the traders could inflict. In the 1800 presidential election, Thomas Jefferson defeated the incumbent, John Adams,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/some-resented-the-way-coffles-driven-right-through-town-put-the-most/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

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## Other authors on Jefferson

## More by Edward E. Baptist

> [“few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of congressmen took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/few-years-after-ball-was-herded-south-a-slave-trader-marched-a-coffle/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“American” women (and a few men) complained that here, wealthy white men sometimes lived with mulatto women until it came time to marry a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/american-women-and-a-few-men-complained-that-here-wealthy-white-men/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/enslaved-african-americans-built-the-modern-united-states-and-indeed/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers united against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/within-half-a-century-after-butler-sent-charles-mallory-away-from/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil War, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-returns-from-cotton-monopoly-powered-the-modernization-of-the/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Chains enabled another kind of violence to be done as well. Chains saved whites from worrying about placating this one’s mother, or buying that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/chains-enabled-another-kind-of-violence-to-be-done-as-well-chains/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Once all the gold and silver had been thoroughly stolen, the empires found even greater sources of wealth by laying a belt of plantation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/once-all-the-gold-and-silver-had-been-thoroughly-stolen-the-empires/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“One night at a tavern in Virginia’s Greenbrier County, a traveler watched as a group of traders put a coffle of people in one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/one-night-at-a-tavern-in-virginia-s-greenbrier-county-a-traveler/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked wistfully to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/many-whites-now-proclaiming-that-science-proved-that-people-of/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“But he forgot to close a lock one night, and as a newspaper reported, “the negroes rose and cut the throat of Mr. Speers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/but-he-forgot-to-close-a-lock-one-night-and-as-a-newspaper-reported/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton labor. Yet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/by-the-1840s-the-north-had-built-a-complex-industrialized-economy-on/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found, some people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/heroes-deal-out-vengeance-wiping-out-insults-and-in-an-existential/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-idea-that-the-commodification-and-suffering-and-forced-labor-of/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it possible. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/even-today-most-us-history-textbooks-tell-the-story-of-the-louisiana/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“The next day, as they walked, a stranger rode up, matching the Georgia-man’s pace. “Niggers for sale?” He wanted to buy two women. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-next-day-as-they-walked-a-stranger-rode-up-matching-the-georgia/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

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