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Winfield Hazlitt Collins (June 1, 1868/1869/1870 – June 5, 1927) was an early 20th-century American history professor and writer. Now regarded as a "thoroughgoing white supremacist," Collins was the author of The Domestic Slave Trade of our Southern States (1904) and a "vigorous defense" of lynching in the United States called The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South, In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race (1918). His history of the slave trade in the United States "directly reflected proslavery sources and agendas." A contemporary review of the lynching book by Judge Milledge Lipscomb Bonham deemed it "disappointing; it discourages rather than stimulates more serious study of this great question." Collins' work was the basis for Congressman James F. Byrnes' opposition to federal anti-lynching legislation.