Writer: Hoffman
Issue: Race amalgamation
Audience: White citizens of the US
The Gap: The detriment of amalgamation through crossbreeding of races; inferior offspring.
- Claim: Amalgamation is detrimental to both races and must be stopped.
- Reasons; mixed babies had decreased physical ability and morality.
- Evidence: “research” showing increased propensity for illness. A decreased lung capacity. And his study of mixed families that tended to all be criminal. Hoffman used statements and studies from Doctors and scientists.
- Warrant: race is directly connected to a person’s physical, mental and moral traits
- Counterargument: Increased mental capacity of mixed babies over that of black individuals
- Rebuttal: Hoffman states that the increased mental capacity is not worth the loss of physical and moral
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