Chapter II: Part I: Chapter I

CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION.

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European Misconception of the Negro—Monarchical Hostility to
American Institutions—Imposture or Delusion of Wilberforce—False
Issue of a Single Human Race—Dictation of European
Writers—Subserviency of the American Mind 17

CHAPTER II.

LAWS OF ORGANIZATION.

Divisions of the Organic World—Each Form of Being an Independent
Creation—Harmony in the Economy of Animal Life—The Races
specifically different from each other—A Single Species
Impossible—Fallacies of Linnæus and other European
Naturalists—Ignorance of Educated Men on this Subject 34

CHAPTER III.

THE HUMAN CREATION.

Subdivisions of Mankind—The Different Races of Men—Characteristics
of each—The Caucasian—The Mongolian—The Malay—The Aboriginal
American—Caucasian Remains in Mexico—The Esquimaux—The Negro
Race; its Origin; Observations of Livingston, Garth, and
others—Hybrids confounded with the Typical Negro—The Dogma of a
Single Race—Mankind Created in Groups—The Bible Aspect of the
Question—Inconsistency of the Advocates of the Single Race
Theory 44

CHAPTER IV.

HISTORICAL OUTLINE.

Origin of the Caucasian Race—Bible Accounts—Invasion of Egypt by
the Master Race—The Caucasians in Assyria, Persia, and
Babylon—Origin of the Mongolians—The Use of the Term
“Barbarian”—The History of the Greeks—Not the Authors of
Political Liberty—Athens not a Democracy—The Roman Republic and
Empire—Citizenship a Privilege, not a Right—The Advent of
Christianity the Advent of Democracy—The Dark Ages—The Races
that Figured in that Era—The Crusades—The Asiatic Invasion—The
Carthaginians—The Arabs—The Downfall of the Roman Empire—The
Reformation—All the Numerous Varieties of the White Race
Subsiding into Three Well-known Families, the Celtic, the
Teutonic and Sclavonic—General Review—The Intellectual Powers of
the White Race the same in all Ages—Knowledge only
Progressive—The Inferior Races Incapable of Acquiring and
Transmitting Knowledge—The Chinese no Exception 63

CHAPTER V.

COLOR.

The Cause of Color Unknown—The Caucasian Color the Index of the
Character; the Contrary the Case with the Negro Race—The Black
Complexion a Sign of Inferiority—Misuse of the term “Colored
Man” 88

CHAPTER VI.

FIGURE.

Differences in Form—The Negro Incapable of Standing Upright—Other
Marks of Inferiority—The Relative Approximation of the
Ourang-Outang to the Negro and the Caucasian 92

CHAPTER VII.

THE HAIR.

The Hair of the Caucasian and Negro Contrasted—The Beard of the
Caucasian indicative of Superiority—The Negro and other Races
have not the Flowing Beard of the Caucasian 98

CHAPTER VIII.

THE FEATURES.

The Features the True Reflex of the Inner Nature—Variations of
Size, Outlines, Complexion, etc., of the Caucasian
Race—Resemblance of Negroes to each other in Size and
Appearance—Inability of the Negro Features to express the
Emotional Feelings peculiar to the Caucasian, etc., etc. 105

CHAPTER IX.

LANGUAGE.

Divided into two Portions—First Capacity of Expression—Second
Arrangement into Parts of Speech—All Beings have a Language,
each Specific and in Accordance with its Organism—The Vocal
Organs of the Negro—No Negro can Speak the Language of the White
Man Correctly—Negroes can be Distinguished by their Voices—A
Negro Musical Artist Unknown—Musical Genius Requires a Brain of
Corresponding Complexity—The Negro’s Love of Music merely
Sensuous, and Manifested by the Feet as much as by the Brain 109

CHAPTER X.

THE SENSES.

Organism of the Senses—Their Strength and Acuteness in Inferior
Races—The Cause of Negro Indolence Explained—The Necessity of
Governing the Negro—Incapacity of the “Free Negro” to Produce
Sufficient for his own Support—His Ultimate Extinction Simply a
Question of Time—Incapacity of the Negro for the Higher Branches
of Mechanism—Effect of Flogging on the Negro Senses, etc., etc. 115

CHAPTER XI.

THE BRAIN.

Erroneous Impressions Relative to the Brain—What Constitutes the
Brain—Its Size the True Test of Intelligence—General Uniformity
of the Negro Brain—Its Correspondence with the Body—Its Size,
when Compared with that of the White Man—The Folly and Impiety
of Attempting to Equalize those whom God has made Unequal, etc. 123

CHAPTER XII.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Recapitulation and Review of the Outward Characteristics of the
Negro—Color, etc., seen to be only a Single Fact out of the
Millions of Facts separating Races—Inner Qualities necessarily
Correspondent with the Outward ones—Conclusion 132

PART II.

CHAPTER XIII.

HYBRIDISM.

The Laws of Interunion fully Explained—A fixed and well-defined
Limit to Mulattoism—Prostitution in the North, and Mulattoism in
the South—Amalgamation and its Consequences—The Physiological
Laws governing Mulattoism and Mongrelism—Condition of the Negro
in Jamaica, Hayti, etc.—The Negro, when Isolated, certain to
Relapse into his Original Barbarism—Intellectual Difference
between Negroes and Mulattoes—The Viciousness and Cowardice of
the Mongrel—His Low Grade of Vitality, etc., etc. 143

CHAPTER XIV.

THE “SLAVE TRADE,” OR THE IMPORTATION OF NEGROES.

General Review of the Subject—The Absurdity of Attempting to
Civilize Africa—The Adaptability of the Negro to Tropical
Labor—Las Casas and the Negroes and Indians—How the Spanish
Government conducted “the Slave Trade”—Its Inhumanity, as
practiced by the Dutch and English—The Benefits of the Original
“Slave Trade”—The Reason why England is so Anxious to Abolish
“Slavery,” etc., etc. 168

CHAPTER XV.

NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO.

The Law of Adaptation—The Natural Relation of Men to Animals, of
Parents to Offspring, of Men of the Same Species to Each
Other—American Institutions based on the Natural Relations, or
the Natural Equality of the Race—Political Equality the Normal
Order of the White Man—Disregard of the Natural Relations in
Europe—Repression of the Natural Order—Result of the Employment
of Force to Preserve the Existing Condition—Popular Ignorance of
the Relations of Races—Juxtaposition of White Men and
Negroes—Natural Inferiority and Social Subordination of the
latter—The Natural, or Uneducated Negro of Africa, compared with
the Civilized Negro of America—Free Negroism a Social
Disease—Social Subordination, with the Protection of the White
Man, the Normal Condition of the Negro 179

CHAPTER XVI.

CHATTELISM.

Historic Slavery—Its Origin—Its Character—All White People—Often
Highly Educated Men—Their Abject Dependence on the Will or
Caprice of the Owner—Their Incapacity to Propagate
Themselves—Their Restoration to Citizenship, etc.—Nothing
whatever in Common with the Social Subordination of Negroes in
our Time—The Industrial Capacity of the Negro all that the
Master owns—Care and Kindness of the Master—Rapid Increase of
the Negro Population when in their Normal Condition, etc. 204

CHAPTER XVII.

EDUCATION OF NEGROES.

The Education of the Negro should be in Harmony with his Wants and
Mental Capacity—The Folly of Attempting to Educate the Negro as
we do the Caucasian—The Negro always a Child in Intellect—The
Duty of the Master to set his “Slave” a Good Example—The
Imitative Faculty of the Negro mistaken for Intelligence, etc. 215

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS.

Love of the Caucasian Mother for her Offspring—Relative Capacity
of White and Black Children—The Negress, after a certain period,
loses all Love for, or Interest in, her Offspring—Affection for
his Master the Strongest Feeling of which the Negro is capable,
etc., etc. 223

CHAPTER XIX.

MARRIAGE.

The Idea that Marriage does not Exist among “Slaves” Repugnant to
the Northern Mind—Its Effect on Increasing the Anti-Slavery
Delusion—New England Women—Their Domestic Education
Admirable—Their Mistake as to the Facts of Marriage at the
South—Their Southern Sisters—What is Marriage?—Not Simply a
Civil Contract—A Natural Relation—The Love of Negroes Impulsive
and Capricious 233