[Rarebooks] FS: THE NEGRO QUESTION: not the answer you would think

[Charles Agvent]

One of a number of African-American pieces in our new catalog: Summer 
Miscellany with 85 select items in a variety of fields. See the catalog 
here: *http://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/pdfs/Summer2017.pdf*

MAXWELL, Joseph Renner. THE NEGRO QUESTION OR HINTS FOR THE PHYSICAL 
IMPROVEMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WEST AFRICA. 
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First Edition. Decorated green cloth; 
[8], 188, [12] pages. Consists of five chapters: "Negro Hideousness the 
Principle Curse of the Race," "Divine Discontent;" "Miscegenation;" 
"West African Half-Castes," and "Relation of Races." What is most 
surprising about this title is the discovery one makes when one comes to 
page 41: "I am a Negro of pure descent, I have travelled a little, I 
have been educated at Oxford ... but I must confess with regret that, 
except the Chinese, I have never seen another race approaching, even 
within a measurable distance, the Negro in ugliness." Maxwell's belief 
is that blacks and whites are equal in all respects except for physical 
appearance, and that that can be improved in his race by breeding with 
whites. This title and an 1881 pamphlet of 23 pages on relations between 
Europe and West Africa by Maxwell appear in Work, page 172. Text block 
cracked in two places but still tight, some pages roughly opened; spine 
rubbed so that lettering is hard to read. Very Good. (#018468)        
$1,500.00

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