Pseudo-scientific support of slavery, 1863.
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Heading: (African American)
Author: Van Evrie, J.H.
Title: Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Van Evrie, Horton, & Co.
Date Published: 1863
Description:
Author: Van Evrie, J.H.
Title: Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Van Evrie, Horton, & Co.
Date Published: 1863
Description:
339 pp, [3] adverts. Woodcut frontispiece. 7¼x5, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Third Edition.
Virulently racist treatise first published at the dawn of the civil war. John H. Van Evrie (1814-1896) was an American physician and defender of slavery, the author of several books on race and slavery which expounded the ideas of scientific racism for a popular audience. Van Evrie has been described as "perhaps the first professional racist in American history."
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Some light wear and staining to spine and back cover; light toning to pages; overall very good.
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Pseudo-scientific support of slavery, 1863.
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