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Item #31628 Negroes and Negro Slavery, the first an inferior race -- the latter, its normal condition. J. H. VAN EVRIE.
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Negroes and Negro Slavery, the first an inferior race -- the latter, its normal condition

Baltimore: John D. Toy, 1853. 8vo. (8 1/2 x 5 3/16 inches).

First edition.

Written by John H. Van Evrie (1814-1896), an American physician and defender of slavery, this pamphlet was published in 1853 to expound the ideas of scientific racism for a popular audience. The pamphlet is a compendium of the most extreme racist ideas, presented with an air of scientific reason. Based out of New York, Van Evrie refutes the critiques of "Southern Society" presented by a "certain famous or in famous negro novel" (though not named most likely Uncle Tom's Cabin published in 1852) and instead espouses scientific racist ideas to support the institution of slavery by declaring it as part of the natural order. This pamphlet was the progenitor of the monograph he published on the eve of the Civil War and the revised version published after the war. The copyright date of the present edition is 1853. The pamphlet carries the endorsement of Jefferson Davis and J. D. B. De Bow.

"John Van Evrie and Scientific Racism," Countway Library Harvard.

Item #31628

Price: $800.00

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