THE NEGRO
A MENACE TO
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
A MENACE TO
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
Robert Wilson Shufeldt, Scientist & Army M.D., 1850-1934, talks about various problems of the Negro in America and re-examines proposed solutions. One third of the book is news stories, letters, articles. Includes a photo-documentation of a famous Paris Texas lynching, Feb 1st, 1893 ( 7 pictures ) and 8 pictures of Negroes he has known.
“... All this stock now inhabits various parts of the United States, though principally what is known as the “black belt,” that is, an area extending through the Southern States westward, in which direction their numbers gradually decrease, as they do more markedly as we leave Philadelphia coming northward. In other words, and in brief, man is just as much an animal as is an ape, a bear, or a mouse, and he is in every way quite as much amenable to those laws controlling his evolution, development, physical well-being, metamorphoses in his morphology, and other conditions and changes as they are. The negro races of the West Soudan are cannibals, ignorant, superstitious, cruel, unreliable and nonprogressive in every way, savages of the lowest types without a recorded history, and almost totally lacking in anything we refer to modern civilization, and it was from this stock that the negroes of the United States were derived within a comparatively brief space of time, so brief that it is highly probable that many of the near relatives of the negroes here in the United States are still living as cannibals in their own country in Africa. For example, male negroes brought to this country in 1860, when they were twenty-five years old, might easily have left living children behind them in Africa. It would make the fathers here some seventy years old, while their children in Africa would be in the prime of life, or all less than forty-five years of age. So far as I am aware, no single negro in this country has ever made any attempt to hunt up, so to speak, his or her relatives left behind in Africa. No such thing would ever have happened in the case of a white race. Even if it had ever been possible to enslave the latter, they would certainly have made a unanimous attempt to regain their relatives upon having been restored to liberty, and in all probability returned en masse to their own country. That the negroes in the United States have never made any attempts of this nature is one of the best proofs in the world of the extremely low position they occupy, in any sort of a classification, of the genus Homo. ...”
“... All this stock now inhabits various parts of the United States, though principally what is known as the “black belt,” that is, an area extending through the Southern States westward, in which direction their numbers gradually decrease, as they do more markedly as we leave Philadelphia coming northward. In other words, and in brief, man is just as much an animal as is an ape, a bear, or a mouse, and he is in every way quite as much amenable to those laws controlling his evolution, development, physical well-being, metamorphoses in his morphology, and other conditions and changes as they are. The negro races of the West Soudan are cannibals, ignorant, superstitious, cruel, unreliable and nonprogressive in every way, savages of the lowest types without a recorded history, and almost totally lacking in anything we refer to modern civilization, and it was from this stock that the negroes of the United States were derived within a comparatively brief space of time, so brief that it is highly probable that many of the near relatives of the negroes here in the United States are still living as cannibals in their own country in Africa. For example, male negroes brought to this country in 1860, when they were twenty-five years old, might easily have left living children behind them in Africa. It would make the fathers here some seventy years old, while their children in Africa would be in the prime of life, or all less than forty-five years of age. So far as I am aware, no single negro in this country has ever made any attempt to hunt up, so to speak, his or her relatives left behind in Africa. No such thing would ever have happened in the case of a white race. Even if it had ever been possible to enslave the latter, they would certainly have made a unanimous attempt to regain their relatives upon having been restored to liberty, and in all probability returned en masse to their own country. That the negroes in the United States have never made any attempts of this nature is one of the best proofs in the world of the extremely low position they occupy, in any sort of a classification, of the genus Homo. ...”