2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Imprint, 30pp., plus 4pp of ads, Anti-Abolition Tracts ---No. 1, New York, Vanevrie Horton Company, 1868. The title “ABOLITION IS NATIONAL DEATH, or The Attempt to Equalize the Races the DESTRUCTION OF SOCIETY”. John H. Van Evrie racist treatise argues against abolition and racial equality. It claims that abolition would lead to the destruction of society and the white race. The book was published during the Reconstruction era, a time of significant social and political change in the United States following the Civil War. John H. Van Evrie (1814–1896) was an American physician and defender of slavery best known as the editor of the Weekly Day Book and the author of several books on race and slavery which reproduced the ideas of scientific racism for a popular audience. He was also the proprietor of the publishing company Van Evrie, Horton & Company. Van Evrie was described by the historian George M. Fredrickson as ‘perhaps the first professional racist in American history’. His thought, which lacked significant scientific evidence even for the time,[6] emphasized the inferiority of black people to white people, defended slavery as practiced in the United States and attacked abolitionism
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