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Excerpt from An Essay on the Origin, Habits, &C. Of the African Race: Incidental to the Propriety of Having Nothing to Do With Negroes; Addressed to the Good People of the United States
Dr. Smith says also that many centuries occurred to blacken the negroes! Then in what age of the world, from the build ing of Babel to the days of Moses, did the word Ethiopian, (signifying black) become expressive of a race. The centuries from Babel to that time were not enough to have made the people of Upper Egypt or Midian, (fanned by the cool wind just from Asia on the east) black. It is impossible to bow with deference to groundless assertions. And since there is in nature so many contradictions to the essay of Dr. Smith, I shall conclude that his reasonings are untenable, and that the negroes were blackened by some dispensation from on high, as a punishment.
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