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ALFRED H. STONE COLLECTION
VOLUME: 26



25. Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the
American White Man and Negro (New York: H. Dexter, Hamilton, & Co., 1864). (72
p.)




Monograph advocating the merging of the black with the white race via
miscegenation. The author asserts that, physiologically, the two races are equal
and that descendents of mixed racial ancestry are mentally, physically, and
morally superior to the pure race types of their parents. The author foretells a
future in which no one will be pure black or pure white. Mixed race ancestry
will, in fact, be an asset politically. “It follows, there, that after the war
is over, the American people will be compelled to apportion the great
plantations of the South among their former slaves, who will have won the title
by their valor in the field. They will be made not only land-holders, but
citizens. They will be eligible to office; to all the rights now possessed
wholly by the white race. We shall then, in contested elections, see how eager
the white candidate for office will be to prove not only that he is the black
man’s friend, but that he has black blood in his veins.” Mr. Stone has marked
this and other passages in pencil. Someone else has entered comments in ink in
the margins. From the gist of these comments, it appears that the earlier reader
did not embrace the author’s point of view. (The collection has another copy of
this monograph in volume 49 [no. 1].)