The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-11
where are the Descendants OF the Negro
Slaves Of ADtiquityf

When Rome conquered the city Of Carthage
and its dependent territory, there were many
negroes captured who were slaves to the whites
of Africa. These were carried to Rome and
sold there. After that period there were always
numbers of black slaves in the city and its imme-
date neighborhood as long as the empire lasted.
There are no data by which we can judge of the
number of thousands Of these negroes In Rome
but from the incidental mention made of them in
the Latin authors, they must have been quite
numerous. 10 the centuries from their first i'm
portation to the end of the empire. there must
have been at least q million brought into Italy,
though this is most probably but very moderate
estimate. These must have mixed in with the
white race to such an extent that under the en-
pire there must have been many mulattoes.
What has become of this negro blood! There is
certainly no trace OF II now to be found in Italy,
whose inhabitants are entirely free from the
slightest faint OF 1t as are those of Sweden. The
theory that it might have been 80 diluted with
white blood as to be at this time untraceable, is
simply absurd for every one who has studied
the subject of races, or observed the effect of
mixture, knows that the original type if 1t exists
at all, will crop up from time to time 10 most I'M
mistakable manner, down to the thousandth gene
ration.
In Egypt there were also immense numbers Of
slaves imported from the negro tribes on its bor-
ders, from the days Of the early monuments down
TO the present time. Bot though there exists few
ulattoes, descended from the importatons Of
the last two hundred years, yet among the bulk
OF the Inhabitants OF Egypt there are no traces
whatever of negro blood. Indeed, considering
the large number Of negro slaves In Egypt, at all
times, this freedom from admixture 10 that coun.
try is even much more remarkable than in the
case of Italy. aI
There is one way of accounting for these facts,
and but one, and that is, that different are the
Caucasian and African races that they cannot be
permanently mingled together. The mixture pro-
duces being which, il not partial hybrid, is at
least SO subject to disease that IL can be propa-
gated to but few generations, when 1t dies out.
We see this tendency in this country almost forci
bly, shown in the small number of the descendants
of muattoes. Now and then we see quadroon
in Virginia, very seldom an octoroon. and beyond
that degree the blood cannot be said to exist
at all.
Il is this tendency OF the ongrel to die out that
has destroyed all traces of negro blood among the
Indians and Egyptians. Those of them who were
sprung from negroes died out many centuries
ago, leaving the original stock as perfectly pure
as il there had never been an African imported
into either Rome or the kingdom of the Pharaohs
And thus will II be in the South. Not only Will
the pure negro race vanish from the earth in the
course of very few generations, from causes
which must make every inferior race disappear
but not even the slightest sdmixture of blood will
be left among M; the same effects will result 10
the South as in Italy and Egypt, and there will
not be left trace save In history, OF the African
race having ever existed In America.-lNorf
Journal.