VAN EVRIE, John H.
Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" The First an Inferior Race: The Latter its Normal Condition.
New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co , 1861.
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First Edition of John H. Van Evrie's Negroes and Negro "Slavery"
First edition of this vehemently proslavery work by the New York physician who attacks the "great 'Anti-Slavery' delusion'" of Wilberforce and others, published the year the nation erupted into civil war. Octavo, original publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, quadruple ruling stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, tissue-guarded frontispiece, two pages of advertisements to the rear. In very good condition, signature to the title page.
John H. Van Evrie was a self-proclaimed New York physician whose Negroes and Negro "Slavery" was first issued "as a pamphlet in 1853 and then enlarged and published as a book in 1861... Not in any sense a scientist himself, he was... perhaps the first professional racist in American history. Van Evrie defended slavery by repeating for popular consumption all the biological arguments... He argued further that American egalitarianism would not have developed in the first place without the presence of an inferior race, and that slavery and racial discrimination therefore constituted the real bedrock and preservative of the national democracy" (Fredrickson, Black Image, 92-3). Van Evrie was also co-publisher of the New York Day-Book, advertised as "The White Man's Paper," and co-owner of Van Evrie, Horton and Company, which published this work.
Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" The First an Inferior Race: The Latter its Normal Condition.
$750.00
In Stock