The Color Line: A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn

Published in 1905, this polemical essay sets out to treat race as a biological question of paramount importance to American society. It frames the debate through a series of tightly organized chapters, questioning whether the individual can be separated from the race, whether perceived differences are the product of nature or nurture, and how statistics might support claims of hierarchy. The author presents the work as a dispassionate, scientific investigation, even as he openly opposes contemporary calls for equality.

The text moves through detailed critiques of leading anthropologists, statistical analyses of birth and death rates, and projections about the future of the Black population, all aimed at bolstering a white‑supremacist worldview. While the arguments are steeped in the era’s pseudoscientific language, they provide a stark window into the mindset that shaped early‑20th‑century policy debates. Modern listeners will encounter a challenging, historically significant perspective that illustrates