..."threatened" by blacks. Consequently we must ask: why did they believe what they did? Here are their views: I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all the other species of men, to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was any civilized nation of any other complexion...

...posit a fundamental identity between color, intellectual achievement, and intelligence. Hume wrote: 1 am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent...

...Hume expressed very clearly this kind of thinking: I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilised nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent...

...philosopher David Hume in 1753 added in a footnote to an essay written in 1748 and quoted by Fryer: 'I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either...

..."natural" distinctions between peoples in a 1748 essay entitled "Of National Characters," asserting "1 am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any ind1vidual eminent...

...Characters" (1742/1758) should be sounded out loud and clear and should not be missed or taken lightly: I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent...

...human beings. Hume said as almost an aside that I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all of the other species of men (for there are four or five...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent...

...25:xlix. 82. Hume begins a long footnote in his essay "Of National Characters" with the following: I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent...

...Hume includes Africans with all other non-European populations when he writes in a new footnote, "I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent...

...the same manner in regard to the superiority of white men over black. "I am apt to suspect," says he, "the negroes, and in general all the other species...different kinds), to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent...