“The Negro a Beast”
Charles Carroll evaluates the American Negro by means of modern science, biblical & common sense arguments. Ten illustrations; printed in 1900.
“There was a period in the history of Greece when her people were famed throughout the world for their white skins, their fair hair and their possession of all the exalted physical and mental characters which are peculiar to that sublime creature whom God honored in the Creation by the bestowal of His “likeness” and His “image.” In that remote age of her history, Greece gave to posterity a galaxy of intellects, whose names and whose achievements adorn the brightest pages in the world’s history. But alas! alas! Their towering intellectuality, their boundless enterprise, their restless energy, their dauntless courage, combined with their forgetfulness of God, paved the way to their ruin. During their various wars, thousands of negroes were captured and imported into Greece as slaves, together with thousands of captives taken from the mixed-blooded tribes and nations against which Greece waged war. These were never exported, yet they have long since disappeared, leaving no progeny of negroes in their stead. And it is a significant fact, and one which no anthropologist, no historian and no traveler will deny, that the white-skinned, fair-haired Greek of ancient times has also disappeared, leaving no progeny of white-skinned, fair-haired Greeks. What became of them? A glance at our surroundings should convince us that, in an evil hour, amalgamation laid its blighting touch upon the vitals of Greece; and, in the course of centuries, under its destructive influences, the white-skinned, fair-haired Greek and the black-skinned, woolly-haired Negro disappeared, and were replaced by the dark-skinned, black-haired Greek of modern times. This radical change in the physical characters of her population was accompanied by a corresponding change in their mentality, and, consequently, in the status of Greece among the nations of the earth; and that fair land, once the home of the highest culture, became the abode of ignorance and superstition. Many a long century has dragged its weary length into eternity since Greece produced a Homer, an Aristides, a Herodotus, a Pericles, a Solon, a Plato or a Demosthenes.”