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WHEN, more than four centuries ago, the Portuguese obtained the sanction of the Roman Pontiff to engage in the African slave trade, and, some years later (Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494), Pope Alexander VI. assigned to Portugal the west coast of Africa and to Spain the New World (of which Portugal claimed Brazil, in accordance with the terms of the treaty), it could not have been foreseen that these acts were the first steps in the Vastest anthropological experiment the world has ever witnessed, the effects of which for many ages to come are likely to confound and confuse the politics of the Americas. In Portugal itself the population has been transformed into Africanised mongrels, who at the present moment are busily engaged in casting out the representatives of the church that permitted them to begin the process of wholesale racial admixture four hundred years ago.
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"The Negro in the New World". By Sir Harry H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. Pp. xxix + 499. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 21s. net.
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SMITH, G. The Negro in the New World 1 . Nature 85, 172–173 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085172a0
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