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Originally Posted by Karl Radl
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I remember reading Stoddard's book on San Domingo when I was a young man; it was a splendid work. There's actually a fairly voluminous body of 19th and early 20th century literature on the subject of the "negro republic." Comte de Gobineau has many interesting things to say about Haitian negroes in his
Inequality of Human Races. I also read Stoddard's book
The Rising Tide of Color Against Worldwide White Supremacy, which was cryptically alluded to in Fitzgerald's novel
The Great Gatsby. Another good book to read, although long-forgotten, is the planter Edward Long's multivolume
History of Jamaica (1774), which is considered the first influential ideological justification of white biological superiority. In the book, Long compares negroes to orangutans, says they're a different species without any redeeming qualities whatsoever (he was a polygenist), argues that mulattoes are infertile and many other wonderful things. It's surprisingly venomous towards niggers for such an old book, but that's what makes it such a fascinating read.