A bittersweet read by Daniel Aristi from the literary journal Asymptote:
[blockquote source=”Africa for the Chinese, by Francis Galton, letter to the Editor of The Times , June 5, 1873″]My proposal is to make the encouragement of the Chinese settlements at one or more suitable places on the East Coast of Africa a part of our national policy, in the belief that the Chinese immigrants would not only maintain their position, but that they would multiply and their descendants supplant the inferior Negro race.[/blockquote]
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