Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-11-28
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NrcRo SLAVES OF ANrIouIrv When
Rome conquered the city Vi Carthage and
it, dependent territuairs, there we're
many negroes csptured who were e'sv's
to the whites Of Africa These were Car
ried to Rome aud sold there. After lhs.
period there were always numbers Vi
black slaves in the city and it's imme0i
ate ueighborhood % long ~ the empire
lasted. There are no data by which VIZ
can Judge Of the number Of thousands OF
these negroes in Rome /; Out from the
occidental mention made of them in th~
Latin authors, they must have been quite
numerous. . ln the centuries from their
frat importation +, the end Of the empire.
there must have been At least . m''l'o"
brought into Italy. though his is most
probably but = very moderate estimate.
These must have mixed in with the white
race to sucb au extent that under the EN-
pire there must have been many mo,
lattoes.
What has become Of this negro blood !
There, il certainly no trace Of it now t.
be foaud in Italy, wh"se Inhabitants are
entirely Tree frou, the slightest faint Ut it IN
are those Of Sweden. The theory that II
might have been 70 diluted with white
blood As to be at this time ~untrxcsSblr, Is
simply absurd ; Cor every ~ who has
studird the subject Of races. or observed
the effect OF mixture. knows that thu
original type, il it exists vt Ill, will crop
up from time to time in = most uumissak-
able manner, down to the thoussud.h
generation. a.
In Egypt there we're also immense
numbers Of slaves imported from the ue-
g.0 tribes on its borders. from the days
Of its early monuments down to the pre-.
ent time. But though there exists y few
mufsttoe., descended from the inportat-
ions of tie last two buudred years, ye'
amoog the bulk of the inbabitsnts OF
Egypt there are 90 traces whatever Ut
negro blood. Iude. d, considering the
large number Of negro slaves in Egypt.
ct I'll times, this freedom from sdm,xture
in that country is even much more re.
msrkable than in the case 0f Italy.
There is ~ way Of accounting for
theee facts, aud but QUE. aud that is, that
" different are the Caucasian aud African
racer, that they cannot be permanently
mingled togsther. The mixture producers
. being which, if sot . partial hybrid. i~
at least 20 subject to disease that it Can
BE- propogsted to hut . few generations.
when Il dies out. We see this tendency
in tnis country. slmost f,rcibly shown in
the small number Of the descendants OF
mnlsttHrs. Nov and then w u. y quad
rd0nin Virginia. very seldom 40 octeroou.
aad sbryood that degree the blood caunol
be ssid to exist Ut al.
% It IL this tendency of the mongrel t"
die out that has destroyed all traces Of
negro blood among the Italians and Egyp
tjsns. Those Of them w0o were sprung
from negroes died out many centuri s
ago. leaving the original stock ~ perfect
ly puse - if there had never been Ill
African imported either into Rome or the
kind,m of the Pharsohs.
Aud thus it will be in the South. Not
only will the pure negro race vanish from
the earth 10 the course Of . very few
generations, from Causes which must make
every Inferior race disappear, but. no
evspshe slightest sdmixtars Of Lloud will
be left among u the lame Effects will
result in the South ~ in Italy and Egypt.
and there will not be left trace, = ' in
history. of. the African. race having yer
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