Grant approved of slavery and echoed the segregation policies of the American South and the earlier views of Nott and Shaler: “As long as the dominant imposes its will on the servient race and as long as they remain in the same relation to the whites as in the past, the Negroes will be a valuable element in the community but once raised to social equality their influence will be destructive to themselves and to the whites. If the purity of the two races is to be maintained they cannot continue to live side by side and this is a problem from which there can be no escape” (Grant 1918, 87–88).
