The Americo-Liberians 



Many of the first immigrants from America were broken- 

 down people, worn-out slaves, dissatisfied, sickly mulattoes or 

 octoroons. Liberia is no country for the half-breed between 

 the Northern European and the Negro ; nor is this a mis- 

 cegenation to be encouraged. It is not a good cross. In distant 

 centuries, in historic and prehistoric times, the Caucasian of 



109. A LIIJEKIAN PLANTER (MR. SOLOMON illLL) AM) HLS FAMILY 



the Mediterranean and of Western Asia repeatedly invaded 

 Africa and interbred with the Negro. But this type of 

 Caucasian was less widely separated from the Negro stock. 

 The long-headed, brunet division of the white man's species ranges 

 in infinite gradations of skin colour but with scarcely any change 

 of head form from Dravidian India to the Berbers on the shores 



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