![]() ![]() The text as printed, however, was corrupt, due both to the inability of Priest to spell and the sloppiness of the printer, who transposed letters, inverted lines, and otherwise mangled the text. The text below is that of the fifth edition of 1835, the one most commonly found in print and most frequently cited by later writers. Of the author little is known except that he was a racist who wrote at length about the evils of Native Americans and the inferiority of the Black race. The book was a bestseller, and it has been mined by fringe authors for material down to the present. ![]() The book is a credulous compilation of rumors, lies, and wonder stories, all threaded together around a bizarre narrative that imagined a lost white race, possibly from Atlantis, was the true founder of America, only to be killed by Native Americans, who were also the Lost Tribes of Israel. The Albany writer Josiah Priest (1788-1851) founded the genre of fringe history with his monumental book American Antiquities, published in five editions between 18. ![]()
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