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Title: White supremacy and Negro subordination; or, Negroes a subordinate race, and (so-called) slavery its normal condition, with an appendix, showing the past and present condition of the countries south of us
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Van Evrie, John H., b. 1816
Subjects: Slavery -- Justification African Americans Slavery -- United States Controversial literature 1868 Latin America
Publisher: New York, Van Evrie, Horton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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when they became a fixed population, when Virginia,especially, had acquired what, by comparison, may be called alarge negro element, then the actual presence of these negroescalled into existence new ideas, and gave development to newmodes of thought or mental habitudes. All our ideas andmental habits are, in a sense, accidental, the result of circum-stances, just as language, which is the outward expression ofour ideas, becomes changed by time and circumstances. TheEnglish of the tenth century were widely different, of course,in their ideas and mental habits from the English of the four-teenth century, under the rule of the Normans; and this differ-ence was widely varied from anything that mere time or ordi-nary circumstances could have produced. And the different mental habits of the people of Americagenerally, when contrasted with those of Europe, show suffi-ciently that all our ideas are accidental, the result of local cir-cumstances, though, of course, all are in subordination to
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ESQUIMAUX UNIVEPrSlTVoftLLl^S. NORTH AND SOUTH. 271 those fixed and fundamental laws of mind that are specific withthe race. The presence, therefore, of the negro—of a widelydifferent and subordinate element of the population of Vir-ginia, and other States, when it became stationary and had tobe provided for by the local legislatures, its specific wants aswell as those of the citizenship looked after, and its socialadaptations rendered harmonious with the welfare of the for-mer—naturally developed new ideas of government and newmodes of thought in the dominant and governing race. Except,possibly, some of the Spanish colonies south of us, there wasno portion of the New World where so many of those whocould claim connection with European aristocracy originallysettled as in the province of Virginia. In the earlier days of Massachusetts a great number of themost respectable of the middle classes of English society, and.some few instances of the old hereditary nobility, found newhomes

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