A Remarkable Work
March 5, 1904
Summary
The Planet praises “The Negro is a Man” as a book that utilizes biblical context to support the “Negro is of Adamic offspring” and “therefore has a soul”.
Transcription
We have received “ The Negro is a Man,” a cloth bound volume of 552 pages. Rev. W. S Armistead, white, of Tifton, Georgia, is the author and we have no hesitation in saying that it is the most remarkable work of the kind that we have ever read. It is a reply to Prof, Charles Carroll’s book entitled, “The Negro is a Beast.”
It makes some startling declarations and the most radical citizen of color in this country will be doubly pleased when he notes some of the truly surprising assertions of this author, who gives history, both biblical and profane in support of his astounding contentions.
That he resides in Georgia, emphasizes the fact that “some good can come out of NAzareth.”
Rev.Armistad declares that Adam and Eve were not white persons, but were red ones. He announces that the serpent spoken of in the Scriptures was similar in appearance to the crocodile of the to-day.
“Adam was a red man; Adam was a species man; the antediluvians were ‘a colored’, ‘red people’, there being no other kind of people on the earth in the ages before the Deluge, save Japheth and Ham, Noah’s white and black sons; that neither of Noah’s sons had off-spring till after the Flood; that therefore there were no Negroes-Ham's descendants-on earth till after the cataclysm; hence Negroes were Hamitic in origin, and postdiluvian in time; such being the undoubted teaching of the Mosaic Record, teaching confirmed by the sacred records of the Egyptians, the Chaldeans and the Chinese, which date back to postdiluvian age as the period in the world’s history when there began to be more races than one on the earth, those records speaking ‘of races’ on earth for the first time i that age.”
The author concludes:
“Part I taken as a whole is our first argument in proof that the Negro is of Adamic offspring, Noahic origin, Hamitic descent, a blood relation of whites,reds,browns,yellow and copper colors-a human being and therefore has a soul.”
This work is published by Amistad and Vickers, Tifton, Georgia. It will be valuable addition to every colored man’s library.
It makes some startling declarations and the most radical citizen of color in this country will be doubly pleased when he notes some of the truly surprising assertions of this author, who gives history, both biblical and profane in support of his astounding contentions.
That he resides in Georgia, emphasizes the fact that “some good can come out of NAzareth.”
Rev.Armistad declares that Adam and Eve were not white persons, but were red ones. He announces that the serpent spoken of in the Scriptures was similar in appearance to the crocodile of the to-day.
“Adam was a red man; Adam was a species man; the antediluvians were ‘a colored’, ‘red people’, there being no other kind of people on the earth in the ages before the Deluge, save Japheth and Ham, Noah’s white and black sons; that neither of Noah’s sons had off-spring till after the Flood; that therefore there were no Negroes-Ham's descendants-on earth till after the cataclysm; hence Negroes were Hamitic in origin, and postdiluvian in time; such being the undoubted teaching of the Mosaic Record, teaching confirmed by the sacred records of the Egyptians, the Chaldeans and the Chinese, which date back to postdiluvian age as the period in the world’s history when there began to be more races than one on the earth, those records speaking ‘of races’ on earth for the first time i that age.”
The author concludes:
“Part I taken as a whole is our first argument in proof that the Negro is of Adamic offspring, Noahic origin, Hamitic descent, a blood relation of whites,reds,browns,yellow and copper colors-a human being and therefore has a soul.”
This work is published by Amistad and Vickers, Tifton, Georgia. It will be valuable addition to every colored man’s library.
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“A Remarkable Work,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed September 14, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/285.