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The Business of Bigotry: John Van Evrie's Nineteenth-Century Racist Media Empire
by Michael E. Woods (UNC Press, 2026)
This new book just came out. Van Evrie was a vigorous advocate of polygenism, arguing that blacks were not simply an inferior race to whites but a separate, inferior species. Interestingly, he was a New Yorker, not a Southerner.
How much influence did Van Evrie's extremist views have in the Antebellum Era or Reconstruction Era?
by Michael E. Woods (UNC Press, 2026)
This new book just came out. Van Evrie was a vigorous advocate of polygenism, arguing that blacks were not simply an inferior race to whites but a separate, inferior species. Interestingly, he was a New Yorker, not a Southerner.
How much influence did Van Evrie's extremist views have in the Antebellum Era or Reconstruction Era?
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