Today, the Bangs auction house would have been rubbing its hands with unconcealed glee and kiting the price of the manuscript into the stratosphere. In 1877, no bidding took place. Bangs merely announced that the letter had been sold for $13.

If this is happening, this group should also be in the process of developing whitelike racial attitudes befitting of their new social position and differentiating (distancing) themselves from the collective black.

Here [the new fire ant queen] raises a few tiny “minim” workers entirely from her body reserves of stored fat and metabolically cannibalized wing muscles.

Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old, Because their vnkind colour makes them doubt Them to be theirs;