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CHAPTER VI
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Its pupils were of a reddish color, and its physiognomy that of a Mandingo.

He says such cases are not at all uncommon; they are really negro albinos.

Thomas Jefferson, in his "History of Virginia," has an excellent description of these negroes, with their tremulous and weak eyes; he remarks that they freckle easily.

Buffon speaks of Ethiops with white twins, and says that albinos are quite common in Africa, being generally of delicate constitution, twinkling eyes, and of a low degree of intelligence; they are despised and ill-treated by the other negroes.
Prichard, quoted by Sedgwick, speaks of a case of atavic transmission of albinism through the male line of the negro race.

The grandfather and the grandchild were albinos, the father being black.


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