said before, from the very beginning after the flood, by negro nations.
Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, speaks of the madness of the Egyptians after women, in the place where he relates the story of Abraham's going down to Egypt with his wife Sarai: Gen. xii, 10, 20. By this it is seen that in those ancient ages, strangers of other nations and distant parts of the earth, considered it a dangerous thing to travel in Egypt in company with women. So notorious were they in this particular, even among themselves, that when the rich and noble lost by death, any female relative who had been reputed as handsome and pleasing to look upon, when living, they dare not send the body to the embalmers until they had been dead several days, lest their persons should become the objects of violation. See Clarke's comment on Gen. 1, 2. Is there any thing which can be imagined by the human mind, more awful and repulsive than the above trait, of far more than brutal depravity.
When Herodotus traveled in Africa, among the various tribes of Egypt, Lybia, and Ethiopia, he says that he found the negro inhabitants living like animals, with respect to chastity. The following are his words on the subject: "Among all these nations whom I have specified, the communication between the sexes is like that of the beasts — open and unrestrained." Was this induced by slavery, as abolitionists say it is in America?
That those nations of whom he speaks were really the negroes of Africa, Herodotus says they were all of the same complexion with the Ethiopians, being
