[Illustration: FIG. I.—Page 135.] [Illustration: FIG. II.—Page 136.] [Illustration: FIG. III.—Page 136.] [Illustration: FIG. IV.—Page 136.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEGROES AND NEGRO “SLAVERY:” THE FIRST AN INFERIOR RACE: THE LATTER ITS NORMAL CONDITION. BY J. H. VAN EVRIE, M.D. “To our reproach it must be said, that, though for a century and a half we have had under our eyes the races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a different race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of mind and body.”—THOMAS JEFFERSON _in his “Notes on Virginia.”_ NEW YORK: VAN EVRIE, HORTON & CO., 162 NASSAU STREET. 1861. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by JOHN H. VAN EVRIE, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY SMITH & MCDOUGAL, 82 & 84 Beekman-st. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE.