Book/Printed Material A review of Hoffman's Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro, African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 1. A REVIEW OF HOFFMAN'S RACE TRAITS AND TENDENCIES OF THE AMERICAN NEGR0, BY KELLY MILLER. Price, Twenty-five Cents. WASHINGTON, D. C. PUBLISHED BY THE…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 1. A REVIEW OF HOFFMAN'S RACE TRAITS AND TENDENCIES OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO, BY KELLY MILLER. Price, Twenty-five Cents. WASHINGTON, D. C. PUBLISHED BY THE…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy OCCASIONAL PAPERS. No. 1.— A Review of Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. —Kelly Miller 25 Cts. No. 2.— The Conservation of Races. —W. E. Burghard Du Bois 15…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy A REVIEW OF HOFFMAN'S RACE TRAITS AND TENDENCIES OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO. In August, 1896, there was published, under the auspices of the American Economic Association, a work entitled “Race Traits and…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 4 The main conclusion of the work is that the Negro race in America is deteriorating physically and morally in such manner as to point to ulterior extinction, and that this decline…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 5 one, and therefore its establishment needs to be inquired into with the greatest particularity. If a race does not possess the requisite physical stamina, it is impossible for it to maintain…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 Colored Population of the United States. Year. Colored Population. Decennial Increase. Increase per cent in to years. Per cent of total population 1790 757,208 19.27 1800 1,002,037 244,829 32.33 18.88 1810…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 In 1810 there were 1,377,808 Negroes in the United States. In 80 years this number had swollen to at least 7,470,040, and that, too, without reinforcement from outside immigration. It more…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 is more clearly stated in a recent notice of the work now under review. “Concerning the first of these chapters dealing with population he (Mr. Hoffman) reaches conclusions very different from…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 cities is quite suggestive. The following table will disclose some of the striking features which Mr. Hoffman has exhibited at length* * Page 14. City. Colored population No. Wards. Colored population…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 with any race or nation known to history. The torch has been passed from race to race and from age to age. Where else can the Negro go? The white race…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 II Death Rate. 2 Statistics are collected from ten of the largest cities with the result that the death rate among the whites is 20.12 per 1000, and among the blacks…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 and 1000 white women to only 127, yearly; that is to say, three colored women have as many children as four white.”* * M. G. Mulhall, F. S. S., in North…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 Mortality among Whites in Southern Cities. * City. Period. Death rate. Mobile, Ala 1852–1855 54.39 Charleston, S. C 1851–1860 29.79 Savannah, Ga 1856–1860 37.19 New Orleans, La 1849–1860 59.60 * Pages…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 A recent report of the Labor Bureau throws much light on the subject. Annual Death Rate of the Colored Race for three quinquennial periods. * City. 1880–1885. 1885–1890. 1890–1895. Atlanta 37.96…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 every Northern community for which statistics are available it appears that the death rate is in excess of the birth rate. It does not seem to have occurred to the author…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 prior to emancipation. Indeed, many intelligent people of observation and full acquaintance of the Negro have stated to me that they never saw a crazy or consumptive Negro of unmixed blood…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 out the “night air,” and a single door must serve for entrance, exit, and ventilation, and lung degeneration is the inevitable result. The cause of the evil suggests the remedy. The…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 Consumption is only one of the contributing causes of the total death rate. It has been shown that the death rate from all causes does not necessarily point to the extinction…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 the Negro is heavier than the white man. This fact, the author tells us, is ordinarily considered favorable to a healthy development and freedom from pulmonary weakness. “The elaborate investigations of…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 CHAPTER IV. Subject. Amalgamation. Gist. “The crossing of the Negro race with the white has been detrimental to its true progress and has contributed more than anything else to the excessive…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 opinion is almost or quite universal among competent authorities upon this subject. And yet the last word of science has not been uttered on this question. There is no subject in…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 3. The Mulatto is Intellectually Superior to the Blacks but Inferior to the Whites. In substantiation of this proposition it is claimed that the greater number of Negroes who have attained…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 the law of averages thus obtained is confidently relied upon. Nor are we informed as to what methods were employed to ascertain the exact composition of blood of the 22 cases…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 The question of the relative intellectual capacity of the different races is one of much speculative interest. I am giving the matter more attention than it would seem to warrant, because…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 25 The Negro's intellectual aud social environments hang as a millstone about his neck; and when he is cast upon the sea of opportunity he is reproached with everlasting inferiority because he…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 27 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 26 theories compel him to explain away every apparent advantage in favor of the Negro. The author announces with an implied negative response to the suppressed question: “It remains to be shown…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 28 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 27 public sentiment, which is superior to the law itself. The average jury is a whimsical creature, subject to all kinds of influences, though mostly of a sentimental character. In criminal matters…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 29 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 28 The social degradation of the Negro is the greatest factor contributive to this high criminal record. We naturally associate poverty, ignorance, and crime as being indissolubly connected. The Negroes represent the…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 30 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 29 here, unless through some unexpected agency a complete change should be effected in the social conditions which prevail. The abiding place of a large class of idle, illiterate, and consequently vicious…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 31 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 30 If, on the other hand, we select those states in which the Negro element is small and the foreign element large the result is very decidedly to the disadvantage of the…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 32 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 31 not flattering to the Negro, a learned medical authority tells us: “I might remark in passing that, notwithstanding the horrible crimes perpetrated under the influence of the furor sexualis by the…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 33 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 32 The only alarming feature of the situation is the constant increase in the illegitimate rates. That twenty-five per cent of the births among Negroes are illegitimate will not alarm anyone where…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 34 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 33 still he left Negro females enough to form a manless community larger than Annapolis, Md. Now, no one should wonder at the moral corruption under these circumstances. These 8000 females. for…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 35 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 34 the public of the discharged white employes of the Charleston establishment: “If the colored man's status precludes him from competing with the office-holder, it should exclude him from competing with our…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 36 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 35 population is placed at many disadvantages which it cannot very well remove. The unsanitary condition of their dwellings, their ignorance of the laws of health, and general poverty are the principal…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 37 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 36 two persons of all the hosts who left the land of Egyptian bondage survived to reach the Promised Land forty years afterward. Luckily for the Hebrews, there were no statisticians in…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 38 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy The American Negro Academy. Organized March 5, 1897. OBJECTS: For the promotion of Literature, Science, and Art. The Culture of a form of Intellectual Taste. The Fostering of Higher Education. The Publication…- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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Image 39 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Miller, Kelly - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Date: 1897
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- A review of Hoffman's Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro,
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- Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939
- Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939, inscriber
- Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.), former owner
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
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- Washington, D.C., Published by the Academy, 1897.
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- - Hoffman, Frederick L.--(Frederick Ludwig),--1865-1946.--Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro
- - African Americans
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- 36 p. 23 cm.
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- E185.5 .A51 no. 1
- E185.61 .H69 Copy 2.
- E185.61 .H69 Copy 2 Copy 3.
- E185 .A254 container M, no. 193 Another copy. Author's presentation copy. From the Anthropological Society of Washington, D.C., with its stamp. Formerly part of YA Pamphlet Collection: YA 17757. Source unknown.
- Microfilm 22533 E Microfilm.
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