WILLIAM STUMP FORWOOD PAPERS #260, 1836-1897
Correspondence, speeches and writings, magazine and newspaper clippings, financial papers,
and photographs of Forwood, physician of Darlington, Maryland. Forwood, who attempted to
justify slavery on medical grounds, served as president of various local medical societies
and was the local historian of his hometown. Included in the collection are letters
discussing the alleged intellectual inferiority of the black race (1857) and writings and speeches concerning slavery, including: "The Negro--A Distinct
Species" (1857), "Notes on Ethnological and Anatomical Differences
in the Races" (1861), and "Slavery the Cause of War" (1861-1865).