The sexual status of the Negro, past and present

McHatton argues that African Americans were healthier and better off in slavery and living on plantations than as freedman living in towns and cities, as evidenced by the prevalence of veneral disease among blacks before and after emancipation.
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"Reprint from American journal of dermatology, vol. X, no. 1."
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LC copy has page numbering obscured by ink. "Native born" is underlined in ink on p. [2]. Correction in ink on p. [4] of "were" to "are".