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A Hideous Monster of the Mind

American Race Theory in the Early Republic

Bruce Dain

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ISBN 9780674009462

Publication Date: 02/21/2003

334 pages

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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

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