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"In the North, he said, the whites held themselves more aloof from the blacks, and the latter were forced to ride in separate coaches but that "in the South the Negro may ride in the omnibus without offense; his proximity to the white creates neither alar
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Date: April 08, 2026 11:29AM
"On this subject of travel, Charles Mackay, a visiting Englishman, who
was certainly no friend of slavery, said also, "In the South, the slave-owner
not only cohabits with the more youthful and beautiful of his female slaves
but seems to have no objection whatever to the close proximity of any
Negro, young or old, male or female." In the North, he said, the whites
held themselves more aloof from the blacks, and the latter were forced to
ride in separate coaches but that "in the South the Negro may ride in the
omnibus without offense; his proximity to the white creates neither alarm
nor disgust."* In short, there were no jim-crow cars in the South then.
Julius Melbourn, wealthy Negro scholar, is a precise case in point.
When the latter called on Thomas Jefferson, he received him not only
with the greatest courtesy, and gave him the use of his library, but invited
him to dinner at which were several leading Americans, among them Chief
Justice Marshall, and former Secretary of War, Samuel Dexter. Incident-
ally this shows that in spite of the tremendous storm of disapproval against
Theodore Roosevelt for dining with Booker T. Washington at the white
House it was not the first tinle that a president of the nation sat down to
dinner with a Negro.
Melbourn seems to have bien received as an equal by white men in
the South, and compares this with the treatment he received in the North.
He says, "When I arrived in Philadelphia I soon found that my African
blood was considered a sufficient objection to my being received as an equal
among well-bred people. . . . This probably arises from the fact that the
inhabitants of the free states have less intercourse with the blacks than
those of the slave states. This hypothesis is greatly strengthened by the
fact that in the Pilgrim Land of New England where the blacks are much
less numerous than in Pennsylvania or New York the prejudice founded
upon color, as I shall hereafter show, is so great as absolutely to amount to
what may be denominated a color phobia." H e adds, however, that while
in New York he met so many "Southern gentlemen and foreigners" at the
City Hotel "that he had social intercourse enough." Sex and Race Vol 2 J.A. Rogers
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/08/2026 11:31AM by the real General Mahdi.
was certainly no friend of slavery, said also, "In the South, the slave-owner
not only cohabits with the more youthful and beautiful of his female slaves
but seems to have no objection whatever to the close proximity of any
Negro, young or old, male or female." In the North, he said, the whites
held themselves more aloof from the blacks, and the latter were forced to
ride in separate coaches but that "in the South the Negro may ride in the
omnibus without offense; his proximity to the white creates neither alarm
nor disgust."* In short, there were no jim-crow cars in the South then.
Julius Melbourn, wealthy Negro scholar, is a precise case in point.
When the latter called on Thomas Jefferson, he received him not only
with the greatest courtesy, and gave him the use of his library, but invited
him to dinner at which were several leading Americans, among them Chief
Justice Marshall, and former Secretary of War, Samuel Dexter. Incident-
ally this shows that in spite of the tremendous storm of disapproval against
Theodore Roosevelt for dining with Booker T. Washington at the white
House it was not the first tinle that a president of the nation sat down to
dinner with a Negro.
Melbourn seems to have bien received as an equal by white men in
the South, and compares this with the treatment he received in the North.
He says, "When I arrived in Philadelphia I soon found that my African
blood was considered a sufficient objection to my being received as an equal
among well-bred people. . . . This probably arises from the fact that the
inhabitants of the free states have less intercourse with the blacks than
those of the slave states. This hypothesis is greatly strengthened by the
fact that in the Pilgrim Land of New England where the blacks are much
less numerous than in Pennsylvania or New York the prejudice founded
upon color, as I shall hereafter show, is so great as absolutely to amount to
what may be denominated a color phobia." H e adds, however, that while
in New York he met so many "Southern gentlemen and foreigners" at the
City Hotel "that he had social intercourse enough." Sex and Race Vol 2 J.A. Rogers
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/08/2026 11:31AM by the real General Mahdi.