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NEGROES AND NEGRO “SLAVERY:” THE FIRST AN INFERIOR RACE: THE LATTER ITS NORMAL CONDITION.

NEGROES

AND

THE FIRST AN INFERIOR RACE: THE LATTER ITS NORMAL CONDITION.

BY

J. H. VAN EVRIE, M.D.

“To our reproach it must be said, that, though for a century and a half we have had under our eyes the races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a different race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of mind and body.”—Thomas Jefferson in his “Notes on Virginia.”

Thomas Jefferson

NEW YORK:

VAN EVRIE, HORTON & CO.,

Smith & McDougal

v

PREFACE.

Since the first edition of this work was issued, startling and deplorable events have occurred. The great “Anti-Slavery” delusion, that originated with European monarchists more than fifty years ago, has culminated in disunion and civil war, as its authors always predicted it would. A party strongly imbued with the false theories and absurd assumptions of British writers and abolition societies, is in possession of the Federal Government, which it stands pledged to use to reduce its assumptions to practice. It holds that the negro, except in color, is a man like themselves, and naturally entitled to the same liberty—that to deny him 

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