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² Rodman, Selden, Quisqueya: A History of the Dominican Republic (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964), p. 17Google Scholar.

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⁶ Taylor, William R., Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American National Character (New York: George Braziller, 1961), p. 64Google Scholar. Genovese (p. 96) gives rather more of the quotation — and a slightly different version: “Let it never be forgotten that our Negroes are freely the Jacobins of the country; that they are the Anarchists and the Domestic Enemy: the common enemy of civilized society, and the barbarians who would if they could, become the destroyers of our race.” I have not been able to consult the original — but “freely” is surely Genovese's Marxian slip.