Thomas Jefferson: A Product of his times or a Hypocrite? Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite. He was not only a leader, but he was a follower. Thomas Jefferson did not believe in miscegenation. Miscegenation is the mixing of two races. He believed that whites could not compete with the blacks in sexual behavior. He said that it had nothing to do with love, it was purely animalistic sex drive. Jefferson believed Africans were like animals in heat in the spring. He also believed that black men would turn against white women and rape them. In the Notes Of Virginia he said that “black men showe....

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