Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition.Van Evrie, John H.
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Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition.
Van Evrie, John H.
African Americans; Slavery -- Justification; Slavery -- United States
The outward presence of a foreign government impels the unhappy white
people of these fertile and beautiful islands into this monstrous
violation of the laws of organization, and certain ultimate social
destruction; but the power of the government also restrains the negro
element from a rapid collapse into its native Africanism. In Hayti,
where all external or governmental influence is withdrawn, the negro
nature already strongly manifests its normal savagery, when no longer
restrained by the master race, and the worship of Obi or Feticism, and
even the native African dialect, is becoming common to many districts in
that island. In general terms, it may be said that the exact moment when
the white blood becomes extinct is also the instant when Africanism is
perfectly restored, but the outward presence of the British government
on the islands, and of the Colonization Society in Liberia, will prevent
the complete development of this otherwise natural and necessary law.
That the white blood of Jamaica must be absorbed, or rather must die
out, is a necessity, an effect, a fate that is unavoidable—the final end
being alone a question of time. A foreign government, as has been said,
regardless of the protests and the cry for mercy of its unfortunate
people, forcibly changed their relations to the subordinate race. It
declared the negroes the legal and political equals of the whites; this
necessarily led to social equality—that, in its turn, to the marriage of
whites and quadroons—quadroons with mulattoes, and mulattoes with
negroes; thus the process, beginning with the act of the British
Parliament abolishing “slavery,” ends naturally and necessarily in the
social immolation and final extinction of the white people of that
island.
All the links in the chain are continuous—all the series of events
dependent on each other—all the steps of the process naturally united;
the emancipation, the legal equality, the social level, the admixture of
blood, and the ultimate extinction, are part and parcel of the same
awful crime against nature and against God, against the laws of
organization and against the decrees of the Eternal. The _end_,
therefore, of these things must be the restoration of the pure Indian
type on the main land and that of the negro in the islands; and, as has
been said, though the time needed for the completion of this reparatory
process—for such it is, physiologically considered—may not be determined
with certainty, it can not be very distant, and were white men to stand
aloof and permit the process to work itself out, without interference,
it is quite probable that a hundred, or, at most, a hundred and fifty
years hence, there would not be a drop of white blood found south of our
own limits.
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