It is interesting to recall that it was just when the war was at a fever pitch, in the early 1890s, that his views on the Kushites harshened. While before he had regarded them as the “handsomest” of people, at that time he demoted them from their prior status as whites and classified them as Negroes, who to him were subhuman. At that time he also said the Kushites when confronting Sennacherib had been big losers.
