The American Prejudice Against Color

William G. Allen, active predominantly in the antebellum period between 1849 and 1853, is best recognized for his trenchant critique of racial discrimination in his seminal work, 'The American Prejudice Against Color'. In this impassioned treatise, Allen, himself an African American and a scholarly figure of his era, dissects the multifaceted manifestations of racism that plagued American society ...