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of perfecting the slave into the perfect worker.
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He was a bit of a mad scientist.
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And he was especially obsessed with racial purity.
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His writings are just replete with his fears about hygiene,
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that if white and black people touched
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or if they came together the whites would be soiled,
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and that any kind of intermixing
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of the races was to destroy ultimately the intellect,
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the ability, the capacity of a master race.
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He wasn't that widely read, I must admit,
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but it shows us how far pro-slavery could ultimately go.
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In Hughes's vision and Hughes's worldview