John H. Van Evrie
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.
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