This is a small section taken from the introduction of ‘The Negroes in Negroland’. A perfect description of them. The whole introduction is beautifully written.
While, therefore, with an involuntary repugnance which we cannot control, and with a wholesome antipathy which it would be both unnatural and unavailing in us to attempt to destroy, we behold the crime-stained blackness of the negro, let us, also, at the same time, take cognizance of:
His low and compressed Forehead ; His hard, thick Skull
His small, backward-thrown Brain ; His short, crisp Hair
His flat Nose
His thick Lips ;
His projecting, snout-like Mouth ;
His strange, Eunuch-toned Voice ;
The scantiness of Beard on his Face ;
The Toughness and Unsensitiveness of his Skin ; The Thinness and Shrunkenness of his Thighs
His curved Knees
His calfless Legs ;
His low, short Ankles ;
His long, flat Heels ;
His glut-shaped Feet
The general Angularity and Oddity of his Frame ;
The Malodorous Exhalations from his Person
His Puerility of Mind ;
His Inertia and Sleepy-headedness ;
His proverbial Dishonesty
His predisposition to fabricate Falsehoods ; and
His Apathetic Indifference to all Propositions and Enter-
prises of Solid Merit.