A Hideous Monster of the Mind

American Race Theory in the Early Republic

Bruce Dain

    Preface

    1. The Face of Nature

    2. Culture and the Persistence of Race

    3. The Horrors of St. Domingue

    4. The Mutability of Human Affairs

    5. Conceiving Universal Equality

    6. Black Immediatism

    7. The New Ethnology

    8. Effacing the Individual

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: A Hideous Monster of the Mind
  • A photo of the author

Bruce Dain is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah.