[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. [RACISM]. "ARIEL" [pseudonym of CARTWRIGHT, Samuel A. (1793-1863)]. The Negro: What I His Ethnological Status? Is He the Progeny of Ham? Is He a Descendant of Adam and Eve?... Cincinnati: For the Proprietor, 1867. 8vo. 48 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers.

Wrappers with tape repairs to spine, wrappers chipped, worn, creased, toned, stab-holes visible in text, pp. 27-38 pp. present though loose. Fair. SECOND EDITION OF THIS NOTORIOUS PAMPHLET UTILIZING PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS TO "ESTABLISH" THAT AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE DESCENDED FROM ADAM AND EVE, ALTHOUGH IT IS RIFE WITH RACISM AND MISINFORMATION. The second edition is expanded from the first edition with more arguments and debates (which are generally spurious).