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Title: Cyclopedia of American government
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861-1947 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943, joint ed
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Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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The ir-regular distribution of the negro populationhas therefore put a torsion on the whole systemof American government (Const. Art. I, Sec.ii, 11 3). Mulattoes.—Another element in the ques-tion is the well known fact that somewherefrom a sixth to a fourth of the persons includ-ed in the legal designation of negroes havesome white blood. This middle class is form-ing all the time, though the greater numberof mulatoes are children of mulattoes; and ithas complicated the whole negro problem. Inintelligence and in good looks it is the mostfavored part of the race, it is also the mostlikely to value freedom, and furnishes mostof the leaders. Through inheritance and closerknowledge of the white peoples lives the mu-latto element constantly partakes of the whitemans ambitions and wants a white manschance. The effort to make a legal distinctionbetween the mulattoes and the pure bloodnegroes in Hayti, led to the massacre of 1795,and the average point of view of the white 513 NEGRO PROBLEM
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514 NEGRO PROBLEM race has been that the mulatto is more danger-ous that the pure negro. The mulatto race isboth a mark of and provocation to the demor-alization of white men. Yet to give the mulat-to special favor and advantages because partwhite would encourage an eventual fusion ofthe two races. Hence, the solid determinationof the whites down to the present day thatmulattoes as well as pure blood negroes shallnot be admitted to any kind of social equality. Slavery.—The status of the negro as aslave has been discussed (see Slavery as aLabor System ). It was a status from whichthe English nation had just emerged, neitherchattel slavery nor villenage being recognizedby English law at the beginning of coloniza-tion. Most of the European continentalcountries in 1600 still recognized serfdom, andin addition considered it Christian and lawfulto enslave pagans. Doubtless a few Africanswere held as slaves in England during the six-teenth and seventeenth centuries, and personswho took the

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