This encyclopedia is racist: Mentally the negro is inferior to the white, The remark of F. Manetta, made after a long study of the negro in America, may be tak

This encyclopedia is racist: Mentally the negro is inferior to the white, The remark of F. Manetta, made after a long study of the negro in America, may be taken as generally true of the whole race: “the negro children were sharp, intelligent and full of vivacity, but on approaching the adult period a gradual change set in. The intellect seemed to become clouded, animation giving place to a sort of lethargy, briskness yielding to indolence.