The Race Question in the United States:
- John Tyler Morgan: total racist; opposed Blair Bill (thought it would make blacks overeducated); in favor of bill that prevented black people from voting; believed that race mixing should not occur; said Africans were inferior to whites.
- Thomas Dixon: even worse than the dude above; called for brutality against black people
- Purpose of 14th & 15th amendments: protect black people from hostility of the whites
- They did not want black people to become involved in politics
- The Indians would rather face death than become slaves
Mismeasure of Man:
- Human races were separate from the beginning
- Morton’s drawings from Egypt depicted blacks as servants and slaves
- However, societies depicted blacks as rulers
- His data surrounding skull measurements were inaccurate; he falsified the information on purpose to make them look inferior
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