Thomas Pearce Bailey (1867–1949) was an American educator and early twentieth-century race theorist.
[1] In the words of C. Vann Woodward, Bailey's essay "Race Orthodoxy in the South" (published 1913 in Neale's Monthly and reprinted as part of a collection in 1914) "set down this 'racial creed of the Southern people' with such candor and accuracy that it may serve as the best available summary".
[2] Writing in 1915, reviewer R. H. Dabney noted that Bailey was opposed to racial equality because it would result in "inter-marriage" and "endanger the peace of the community."
He criticized Harriet Beecher Stowe for failing to recognize the importance of these alleged biological distinctions between races and treating them as mere differences of class.
Indeed, almost everything critical that can be alleged against Uncle Tom's Cabin springs from the failure of its humanitarian author to sympathize with race consciousness as such".