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THE ABNORMAL MAN. 



The Colored 

 Criminal* 



The Product of 

 Slavery. 



Money and 



Matrimony, 



the Civil War, during the war, or directly there- 

 after, while the parents were filled with the desire 

 for revenge. 



The negro is not naturally vicious. Unlike 

 the North American Indian who was cruel by 

 nature the native African was comparatively 

 inoffensive and non-destructive. The early his- 

 tory of the African slave reveals very little crim- 

 inal tendency, but under the abuses of slavery the 

 revengeful spirit was gradually developed. Most 

 of the slaves of the South belonged to noble men 

 and women of heart and brain, who treated them 

 well ; and among those so treated crime against 

 person was very rare. Some, however, were sub- 

 jected to the most inhuman cruelty; virtue was 

 outraged, families were broken up, and prospect- 

 ive mothers were compelled to stand by and see 

 their loved ones sold or brutally ill-treated. The 

 revengeful feeling thus generated in the parental 

 mind and the maternal impressions thus made 

 gave to the forming children the instincts of the 

 criminal. 



Commercialism degrades matrimony. Through 

 its seductive influence thousands marry persons to 

 whom they are most illy adapted ; persons whom 

 they never would marry but for their money. 

 Not only do many marry from mercenary mo- 

 tives but the social position of each is so largely 

 determined by one's bank account that young peo- 

 ple are thus limited almost entirely to their par- 

 ticular class. 



A young lady of wealth may be drawn through 

 her affections and judgment to a young man who 

 has nothing to offer but manhood, culture, 



