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Which of the Following Statements About Sexual Relationships Between Slaves

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Which of the following statements about sexual relationships between slaves and masters is LEAST accurate?


A) White men often justified the sexual exploitation of black women by attributing hypersexuality to them.
B) White fathers sometimes exhibited great affection for the children they produced with enslaved women.
C) Although interracial sexual relations were usually coercive,evidence suggests that some enslaved women sought their masters' advances and some relationships between masters and slaves were based on genuine affection.
D) Because of the patriarchal nature of authority in the South,the desire of masters who wished to free their interracial children upon their death was almost never successfully challenged by their white heirs.

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