A major contradiction of Thomas Jefferson was fathering children with a slave woman and his firm belief that blacks were
a. intellectually equal to white men, but not women.
b. eligible for freedom only if they survived their labors until his death.
c. equal in private but unequal in public.
d. inferior to whites in both body and mind.
ANSWER: d
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