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" They secrete less by the kidneys, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odor. "
Natural History of the Negro Race - Page 31
by Julien-Joseph Virey - 1837 - 162 pages
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784

Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 pages
...of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals ; why not in that of man ? Besides those of colour, figure, and hair, there are other physical distinctions...have less hair on the face and body. They secrete [254] less by the kidnies, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784

Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 574 pages
...of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals ; why not in that of man ? Besides those of colour, figure, and hair, there are other physical distinctions...have less hair on the face and body. They secrete [254] less by the kidnies, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable...
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American History Told by Contemporaries ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 706 pages
...of the Oranootan for the black women over those of his own species. . . . Besides those of colour, figure, and hair, there are other physical distinctions proving a difference of race. . . . They seem to require less sleep. . . . They are at least as brave, and more adventuresome. But this may...
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Jeffersonian Legacies

Peter S. Onuf - 1993 - 500 pages
...black which covers the emotions of the other race." Similarly, he disliked getting too close to them: "They secrete less by the kidneys, and more by the...which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odor." While thinking that black women were "more ardent" he doubted blacks capable of a serious relationship:...
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Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861

Alan Gallay - 1994 - 440 pages
...propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not in that of man? Besides those of color, figure, and hair, there are other physical...transpiration, renders them more tolerant of heat, and less so of cold than the whites. Perhaps, too, a difference of structure in the pulminary apparatus, which...
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A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution

John P. Kaminski, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution - 1995 - 310 pages
...propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not in that of man? Besides those of colour, figure, and hair, there are other physical distinctions...hair on the face and body. They secrete less by the kidnies, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odour....
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Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of ...

I. Bernard Cohen - 1997 - 378 pages
...and "the real distinction which nature has made." Among the latter, Jefferson noted that black people "have less hair on the face and body." They "secrete less by the kidnies and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odor."...
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann - 1998 - 200 pages
...relevant differences: blacks have less hair on their face and bodies; "they secrete less by the kidnies, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odour"; "they seem to require less sleep. . . . They are at least as brave and more adventuresome....
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Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal ...

A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. - 1998 - 353 pages
...Jefferson found blacks to be inferior to whites in body and in mind. He wrote: Besides those of colour, figure, and hair, there are other physical distinctions proving a difference of race. . . . They [blacks] secrete less by the kidneys, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong...
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - 1997 - 608 pages
...propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not in that of man? Besides those of color, figure, and hair, there are other physical...transpiration, renders them more tolerant of heat, and less so of cold than the whites. Perhaps, too, a difference of structure in the pulminary apparatus, which...
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