ENGL 281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Dunciad, Sally Hemings, Pulp Magazine
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"there are other physical distinctions proving a difference of race. They have less hair on the face and body. They secrete less by the kidnies, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odour" Sees blacks as a different species [attracted to women, in the same way that orangutans are attracted to black women] Knew that all the mythology he spread would be believed by the common person, and thus keep blacks in a state of superiority. Male supremacy it is always eminated from the very height of elitist stature, Not angry, poor white men, because they are who spread the ideas that they want you to believe . [the poor do not influence, the rich do]. Meanwhile, he sleeps with a 14 year old black slave, and has children from her.