A Sketch of the Religious History of the Negroes in the South (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Sketch of the Religious History of the Negroes in the SouthThe term negro denotes an ideal type distinguished by cer tain physical characters, such as are seen in the people of the coast of Guinea, viz., - black skin, woolly hair, ¿at nose, thick everted lips, and a prognathous form of skull. Negroes occupy about one half of Africa, excluding the northern and southern extremities. Out of Africa they are found throughout America and the West Indies.James Anthony Froude, in depicting the character of the slave population of the West Indies says: Evidently they belonged to a race far inferior to the Zulus and Caffres whom I had known in South Africa. They would have been slaves in their own country, if they had not been brought to ours, and at the worst had lost nothing by the change. Evidence of the extreme degradation of the Africans who were brought to our shores is furnished by the fact that the traders se cured their cargo through the agency of the Africans them selves. It was their own ¿esh and blood who tore the slaves away from their miserable homes, burning their villages, chasing them down, mutilating and destroying many to gratify their selfish greed by selling into bondage those whom they managed to take alive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.