Negroes And Negro Slavery the First An Inferior Race the Latter Its Normal C
Negroes And Negro Slavery the First An Inferior Race the Latter Its Normal C
John H Van Evrie
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Such things happen occasionally, when estates are to be settled and prop- erty divided ; but the instincts of the whites and the happi- ness of the whites are more disturbed by them than the negroes themselves. The Umited intellectual power — the feeble moral nature, and superficial and capricious affections of the negro lead him to regard these separations of wives and husbands— of parents and children, with indifference, or rather we should say he has none of our perceptions or our instincts ...in respect to these family relations, and therefore when they do happen he is relatively or comparatively unconscious of suffering. In his native Africa he sells his wife and children without hesita- tion, and all the suffering he now feels is borrowed or imita- ted from the whites— a feeUng scarcely perceptible in his native state, but in his better and higher life at the South, it is doubt- less exalted into something, like a sentiment of family. ISTever- theless, he readily adapts himself to whatever changes the chances of life may bring him, and where the white husband, and certainly the white wife, might despair and die, the negro 11 242 MARRIAGE.
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