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Editorial
May 29, 1915
The Appeal
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Editorial denounces Lyman Abbott's claim that the South opposes racial mixing, arguing the white South enforces illegal unions while banning legal ones, rooted in slavery's forced admixtures, and calls this the darkest historical atrocity against its own mixed-race kin.
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PASTOR ABBOTT'S SLUSH.
Old man Lyman (well named) Abbott, one of the worst enemies the colored people have ever had and whose record as a giver out of misleading information about racial conditions is A1, is out west again handing out some more slush.
Recently he stood in a pulpit in Illinois and said: "The South has irrevocably decreed against the mixture of the white and black races." The statement is Abbottesque and like many of the half truths he is wont to utter.
If Dr. Abbott had stated that the South has decreed that there should be no lawful mixing of the races he would have been nearer the truth.
The South, that is the white South is not opposed to racial admixture, but being at heart thoroughly immoral it insists that the mixing be done in an illegal manner.
The mixing which has already been accomplished was started by the white South. It began in the days of slavery, when the white master forced the black slave women to bear children, who followed the condition of their mothers and became slaves. A few masters manumitted their half breed children, but they were the exceptions to the general rule. Many masters sold their own offspring for sale and in time the raising of children for the slave markets became a recognized Southern industry.
Since the abolition of slavery, the white South, claiming Christ as its guiding star, has enacted laws making Christian marriage a felony, thus directly aiding immorality. The white South has in every way endeavored to humiliate and degrade its colored people the majority of whom have more or less Caucasian blood.
Search history through; read the atrocities of the barbarian invasions of the early days, read the barbarities of the Middle Ages; read of the Inquisition; read the story of the French Revolution; read of Russia's persecution of the Jews; read of civilized (?) Europe's rape of Africa; read the horrors of the Christians war now devastating Europe. Add all of these together and they will not equal in blackness what Southern white people have meted out to their own sons and daughters to their own brothers and sisters, who are of a slightly darker hue.
It is the blackest page in the annals of the world.
Old man Lyman (well named) Abbott, one of the worst enemies the colored people have ever had and whose record as a giver out of misleading information about racial conditions is A1, is out west again handing out some more slush.
Recently he stood in a pulpit in Illinois and said: "The South has irrevocably decreed against the mixture of the white and black races." The statement is Abbottesque and like many of the half truths he is wont to utter.
If Dr. Abbott had stated that the South has decreed that there should be no lawful mixing of the races he would have been nearer the truth.
The South, that is the white South is not opposed to racial admixture, but being at heart thoroughly immoral it insists that the mixing be done in an illegal manner.
The mixing which has already been accomplished was started by the white South. It began in the days of slavery, when the white master forced the black slave women to bear children, who followed the condition of their mothers and became slaves. A few masters manumitted their half breed children, but they were the exceptions to the general rule. Many masters sold their own offspring for sale and in time the raising of children for the slave markets became a recognized Southern industry.
Since the abolition of slavery, the white South, claiming Christ as its guiding star, has enacted laws making Christian marriage a felony, thus directly aiding immorality. The white South has in every way endeavored to humiliate and degrade its colored people the majority of whom have more or less Caucasian blood.
Search history through; read the atrocities of the barbarian invasions of the early days, read the barbarities of the Middle Ages; read of the Inquisition; read the story of the French Revolution; read of Russia's persecution of the Jews; read of civilized (?) Europe's rape of Africa; read the horrors of the Christians war now devastating Europe. Add all of these together and they will not equal in blackness what Southern white people have meted out to their own sons and daughters to their own brothers and sisters, who are of a slightly darker hue.
It is the blackest page in the annals of the world.
What sub-type of article is it?
Slavery Abolition
Moral Or Religious
Social Reform
What keywords are associated?
Lyman Abbott
Racial Mixing
Southern Immorality
Slavery Legacy
Racial Degradation
Interracial Marriage
What entities or persons were involved?
Lyman Abbott
White South
Colored People
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Southern Hypocrisy On Racial Mixing
Stance / Tone
Strongly Critical Of White South And Lyman Abbott
Key Figures
Lyman Abbott
White South
Colored People
Key Arguments
Abbott Spreads Misleading Information On Racial Conditions
South Opposes Lawful Racial Mixing But Allows Illegal Admixture
Forced Mixing Began During Slavery With Masters Impregnating Slave Women
Post Slavery Laws Criminalize Interracial Marriage To Promote Immorality
Southern Treatment Of Mixed Race Descendants Is History's Blackest Page