An Essay On the Causes of the Variety of Complexion And Figure in the Human Spec
An Essay On the Causes of the Variety of Complexion And Figure in the Human Spec
Samuel Stanhope Smith
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-r to be in a cor. TiUion sufficiently wretched. From this servile class almost all the slaves imported into America are taken: Now and then, however, we find one who has been decoyed, or borne off by force from among those who belong to tin: superior grades of their society. When this is the case, he is commonly distinguished by a more erect person, and more open countenance than his companions, with less of what is called the African peculiarity of feature. A proof that the most disgusting 'q...ualities of the African countenance result from the abject state of poverty and subjection in which their slaves, and the lowest classes of their population exist. This conclusion is confirmed by the amelioration which their features are undergoing in the United Slates, especially in the families of wealthy and humane masters, 251 could justly be expected, allowing to the principles maintained in the preceeding essay their full and necessary operation. I do not hesitate to apply this remark to the American slaves, in general ; but it is applicable especially to the domestic slaves of opu- lent families in the southern states, and the free blacks who are found in considerble numbers in the northern portion of the Union.
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