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" And is this difference of no importance? Is it not the foundation of a greater or less share of beauty in the two races? Are not the fine mixtures of red and white... "
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Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861

Alan Gallay - History - 1994 - 440 pages
...mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of color in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which...countenances, that immovable veil of black which covers the emotions of the other race? Add to these, flowing hair, a more elegant symmetry of form, their...
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Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century

Veronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 364 pages
...the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race?10 This almost uncanny displacement...
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A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution

John P. Kaminski, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution - History - 1995 - 310 pages
...the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race? Add to these, flowing hair,...
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Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...the minister himself. In an earlier historical prototype for the Veil, Thomas Jefferson's "immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race," blackness is itself a veil and marks the members of "the other race" intrinsically as outcasts from...
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Integration or Separation? A Strategy for Racial Equality

Roy L. BROOKS, Roy L Brooks - Law - 2009 - 364 pages
...the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or lesser suffusions of colour in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race? Add to these, flowing hair,...
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Deliver Us from Evil: Resisting Racial and Gender Oppression

James Newton Poling - Social Science - 1996 - 246 pages
...the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race? Add to these, flowing hair,...
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann - Philosophy - 1998 - 200 pages
...the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race? Add to these, flowing hair,...
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Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror

Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic - Social Science - 1997 - 710 pages
...mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of color in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which...black which covers all the emotions of the other race? Add to these, flowing hair, a more elegant symmetry of form, their own judgment in favor of the whites,...
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of color in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which...countenances, that immovable veil of black which covers the emotions of the other race? Add to these, flowing hair, a more elegant symmetry of form, their...
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The Least of These: Race, Law, and Religion in American Culture

Anthony E. Cook - Law - 1997 - 270 pages
...the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race? Add to these, flowing hair,...
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