A Text Book of the Origin and History of the Colored People

Hartford: L. Skinner, 1841


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ting, he did not give us a guess concerning the prospect of the whites to change our complexion to theirs on the supposition that they had met us in Africa.

1. The Portuguese who planted them-selves on the coast of Africa, a few centuries ago, have been succeeded by descend-ants blacker than the Africans.

2. A stronger case still is to be found in the fact that the descendants of a colony of Jews, originally from Judea to the coast of Africa, are black. COPY-RIGHT SECURED ACCORDING TO LAW.



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