In the works of John H. Van Evrie, a Northern supporter of the Confederacy, the term was interchangeable with white supremacy, notably in "White Supremacy and Negro Subordination, Or, Negroes a Subordinate Race and (so-called) slavery its normal condition" (1861). In "Subgeneation: the theory of the normal relations of the races; an answer to miscegenation" (1864) Van Evrie created the words "subgen" to describe what he considered to be the "inferior races" and "subgeneation" to describe the ‘normal’ relation of such inferior races to whites, something which he considered to be the "very corner-stone of democracy"; but these words never entered the dictionary.