Book/Printed Material The Negro's place in nature: a paper read before the London Anthropological Society, African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy Anti-Abolition Tracts.—No. 4. THE NEGR0'S PLACE IN NATURE: A PAPER READ BEFORE London Anthropological Society, BY DR. JAMES HUNT, F. R. S., PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION. NEW YORK: VAN EVRIE, HORTON &…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy ANTI-ABOLITION TRACTS. For twenty-five or thirty years, the Abolitionists have deluged the country with innumerable books, pamphlets, and tracts inculcating their false and pernicious doctrines. Little or nothing has ever been done…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy INTRODUCTORY. Ten years ago, the writer published in pamphlet form, the introductory chapter of a work entitled “Negroes and Negro Slavery”—since published—in which he first promulgated to the world the simple, obvious,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy slavery and an evil, was repudiated by the intelligence and morality of the South. Such was the beginning of a Mental Revolution the most stupendous, wide-spreading and most beneficial of modern times,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy THE NEGRO'S PLACE IN NATURE. I propose in this communication to discuss the physical and mental characters of the Negro, with a view of determining not only his position in animated nature,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 writer, for instance, exclaims: “How I loathe that hypocrisy which claims the same mental, moral and physical equality for the Negro which the whites possess!” No good can come of discussion…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 causes existing which are capable of producing such an alteration, but we have no facts which induce us to suppose that the reverse of this change could in any circumstances be…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 the foot, the radius, and the hand, are more elongated than in the Negro race. That the fingers and arms are longer has long been affirmed, but we have to thank…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 the weight of the brain, its dimensions, and the capacity of the cavum cranii prove this fact.” All recent researches have, however, done much to show that Tiedemann's investigations are not…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 greatly differ in their description of the anatomy of the Negro, to the facts I have adduced. It cannot be doubted that the brain of the Negro bears a great resemblance…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 Even his great faculty of imitation will not enable him to do this. Having thus briefly recapitulated the anatomical peculiarities of the Negro, we now come to the physiological difference between…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 Man, could deliberately make the statement that all races have the same intellectual, moral and religious natures. Rather the reverse is the real fact. Intelligence is the great peculiarity of man,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 the same time, there are doubtless many exceptions to this rule; depending perhaps on the amount of mixture of blood and inherited peculiarities. It is affirmed that the Negro only requires…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 Even the cowrie (the shell of the cyprœa moneta ), which is described in Mr. Wright's paper as having been found among other relics of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, is in this…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 quite equal to the whites. This unscientific assertion is disproved by the cranial measurements of Dr. Morton. That Negroes imported into, or born in the United States become more intelligent and…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 race remain confined within the limits which deserve our attention. In the Arian race the skull presents three fundamental types: the elongated form (producing in some exceptional cases prognathism), which approaches…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 age. Many writers have mentioned the precocity of the Negro children. Sir C. Lyell has observed: “Up to fourteen years of age black children advance as fast as the whites;” and…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 civilization depict him to be.” He gives the result of a ten years' attendance at the Missionary school at Cape Palmas of one of his servants, a Kruman, and says that…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 murder from justifiable homicide in war. Lying and deceitfulness are considered as marks of mental superiority; and those who suffer death on the gallows are buried with the same honors as…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 Van Amringe thus describes the Negro race: “Even after having lived centuries with the white people, from whom they have received every possible instruction for the purpose of developing an attribute…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 themselves. The typical Negro is the true savage of Africa, and I must paint the deformed anatomy of his mind as I have already done that of His body. The typical…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 after a careful comparison, would say, perhaps, that Nature herself had been puzzled where to place them, and had finally compromised the matter by giving them an exactly equal inclination to…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 flattened nose, the rounded larynx, the less marked curves of the verteabral column, the lateral compression of the thorax and pelvis, with the vertical direction of the iliac bones, the elongated…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 which science must not evade. As the student of mechanical science has given to the world his inductions and discoveries, so must the student of the Science of Man endeavor to…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 25 savage state, or the “emancipated” (from work?) in the West India Islands. On the contrary, there is much that is to be admired, and more that is useful in the Negro,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 26 that “in Sierra Leone the Christian tenderness of the British Government has tended to demoralize them. . . . . The women have become as vicious as those of Egypt, the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 27 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 27 banished and the children are destroyed. The greatest insult is to point at a man with arm and two fingers extended, saying at the same time, Nama shubra! i.e. , one…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 28 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 29 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy TRUE NATURE AND CHARACTER of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. By ABEL P. UPSHUR. Octavo, 134 pages. Price $1.00. This…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 30 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy Back Volumes of the Old Guard. THE OLD GUARD. Vol. 1., 1863, contains Steel Portraits of Horatio Seymour, Hon. C. L. Vallandigham, Gov. Parker, of New Jersey, Hon. D. W. Voorhees, Hon.…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 31 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy IN PRESS, To Be issued Between July 1st and July 15th, A YOUTH'S HISTORY OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. 1 Vol., 16mo, 360 pages. Price $1 50. Illustrated with Fifteen Engravings on…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 32 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy White Men must Rule America! NEW YORK DAY-BOOK FOR 1867. The Day-Book steps upon the threshold of the New Year with an increasing business and a wider circulation than that of any…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
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Image 33 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Hunt, James
- Date: 1866
About this Item
Title
- The Negro's place in nature: a paper read before the London Anthropological Society,
Names
- Hunt, James, 1833-1869
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New York, Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1866.
Headings
- - Black race
- - Monogenism and polygenism
- - Slavery--Justification
Notes
- - Introduction signed: J. H. Van Evrie, M.D.
Medium
- 27 p. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E185.2 .A62 no. 4
- E185 .A254 container H, no. 143 Another copy. Formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16638.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 12002987
Online Format
- online text
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