John H. Van Evrie (1814–1896) was an American physician and defender of slavery best known as the editor of the Weekly Day Book and the author of several books on race and slavery which reproduced the ideas of scientific racism for a popular audience. He was also the proprietor of the publishing company Van Evrie, Horton & Company. Van Evrie was described by the historian George M. Fredrickson as "perhaps the first professional racist in American history." His thought, which lacked significant scientific evidence even for the time, emphasized the inferiority of black people to white people, defended slavery as practiced in the United States and attacked abolitionism, while opposing class distinctions among white people and the oppression of the white working class. He repeatedly put "slave" and "slavery" in quotation marks, because he did not think these were the right words for enslaved Blacks. (From Wikipedia)
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Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race, The Latter Its Normal Condition (third edition; New York: Van Evrie, Horton and Co., 1863) (page images at Google)- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Subgenation: The Theory of the Normal Relation of the Races; An Answer to "Miscegenation" (New York: J. Bradburn, 1864)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: White Supremacy and Negro Subordination: or, Negroes a Subordinate Race, and (So-Called) Slavery its Normal Condition (second edition; New York: Van Evrie, Horton and Co., 1870)
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Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: [Vignaud pamphlets : slavery and emancipation in the United States]. ([publisher not identified], 1856), also by Augustin Verot, Robert Augustus Toombs, A. S. Roane, Emile Montégut, G. de Félice, and Melvil Bloncourt (page images at HathiTrust)- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney (Van Evrie, Horton, 1863), also by United States Supreme Court, Samuel A. Cartwright, Roger Brooke Taney, John F. A. Sanford, and Dred Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "slavery:" the first an inferior race; the latter its normal condition. (Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "slavery:" the first an inferior race : the latter its normal condition (Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "slavery"; the first, an inferior race--the latter, its normal condition. (Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "slavery" : the first an inferior race ; the latter its normal condition (Van Evrie, Horton, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "slavery;" the first, an inferior race--the latter, its normal condition. (J. D. Toy, printer, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "slavery." The first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition. (Van Evrie, Horton, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "Slavery" : the first, an inferior race -- the latter, it's normal condition (John D. Toy, Printer, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "slavery:" the first an inferior race; the latter its normal condition. (J. D. Toy, Printer, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition. (Gutenberg ebook)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: Negroes and Negro "slavery;" the first, and inferior race--the latter, its normal condition. (Day book office, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: White supremacy and negro subordination. (Van Evrie, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: White supremacy and Negro subordination; or, Negroes a subordinate race, and (so-called) slavery its normal condition, with an appendix, showing the past and present condition of the countries south of us (Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1968) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: White supremacy and Negro subordination; or, Negroes a subordinate race, and (so-called) slavery its normal condition. (Negro Universities Press, 1969) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: White supremacy and Negro subordination ; or, Negroes a subordinate race, and (so-called) slavery its normal condition, with an appendix, showing the past and present condition of the countries south of us (Van Evrie, Horton, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896: White supremacy and Negro subordination; or, Negroes a subordinate race, and (so-called) slavery its normal condition : with an appendix, showing the past and present condition of the countries south of us. (Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
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