Natural selection and the race problem
By: by Benj. K. Hays
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Natural selection; Race; Human evolution; Social evolution; Social Darwinism; Evolution; African Americans; Race relations
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Benjamin K. Hays, an Oxford, N.C. physician and public health officer, authored this treatise using Charles Darwin's doctrines of natural selection and evolution to explain his stance on the race issue. After providing a brief synopsis of Darwin's theory, Hays begins his commentary by discussing his belief that the black race is inferior to whites in the process of evolution. He suggests that they have benefited from their interactions with whites in this country, and that they will be protected and provided for by whites as long as they do not make attempts towards advancement and equality. Looking to the future, Hays predicts that if blacks do attempt to achieve equality, natural selection and history have revealed that the white race will prove dominant.
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Transcribed from: Natural selection and the race problem / by Benj. K. Hays, M.D., Oxford, N.C. Charlotte, N.C. : [s.n., 1905?] 21 p. ; 17 cm. "Reprint from The Charlotte Medical Journal, May, 1905."

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