Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
Booklet, “Negroes and Negro Slavery, The First, An Inferior Race - The Latter, Its Normal Condition,” 32 pp., plus separate blue cover by J.H. Van Evrie, first edition. With its publication Van Evrie hoped to incite "The White Men of America", especially those of the working class, to resist any alteration to the racial status quo. Van Evrie's methodology involved examinations of multiple body parts leading toward the conclusions outlined in the subtitle. He contended that black people's skin was incapable of expressing emotion to the same extent as that of white people; that black people were incapable of performing music; that black people's fingers, brain and nervous system lacked sensitivity but that they were overly sensitive in other areas; and that black people's physiology (specifically the balance between the head and body) was such that, in the words of William H. Tucker, "education would make it literally impossible for [them] to stand on their feet.
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