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By Gregory Michael Dorr
Advent : you're your brother's keeper! --
"The sacrifice of a race" : Virginia's proto-eugenicists survey humanity --
"Rearing the human thoroughbred" : revolutionary period eugenics in Virginia --
"Defending the skinny purple line" : lecturers and eugenics --
"Sterilize the misfits speedily" : Virginia controls the feebleminded --
"Mongrel Virginians" : eugenics and the "race query" --
"A fitter and happier the USA" : power eugenics in Virginia --
"They observed black in every single place" : eugenics, big resistance, and punitive sterilization --
Conclusion : "I by no means knew what they would performed with me."
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Their autonomous action, construed as a protogenetic ancestral birthright, differentiated American colonists from the “people” who remained in Britain. 18 Jefferson, like his intellectual descendants, worried about the assimilation of immigrants and feared the purported hypersexuality of nonwhite races. 19 First, since immigrants would be coming from monarchies, they would “bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth. . These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children,” rendering them unassimilable.
The extirpation of those which are noxious . . [and] the guarding [of ] our citizens against infectious disorders, by obliging suspected vessels . . 30 Changing scientific ideas in the nineteenth century did little to alter the fundamental social goals expressed by Jefferson. Instead, scientific advance sharpened the edge of the legislative scalpel, and increased the precision with which it dissected pathological agents from the body politic. This medicalization of the rhetoric hardened to dogma throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the “advance” of science—particularly the advent of Darwin and the rise of experimental biology—allowed experts to speak with greater authority about biological phenomena.
Still, he also felt that very few “pure” Native Americans remained in Virginia, most having interbred with blacks. The best way to preserve natural differences was not merely through categorization, but through what would come to be known as “racial integrity”—efforts to stop miscegenation. Later racial theorists would adopt this logic regarding the “varieties” of humanity and the desire to prevent racial mixing. ” Jefferson, like his intellectual descendants down to the present, saw only two outcomes: segregation or amalgamation.