Race Amalgation:
- Racial interbreeding
- Scientific racism. Africans were on the lower evolutionary scale and were outcasts from evolution that made them incapable of reaching full human capability.
- The children that come from a colored women and a white male were considered morally and physically inferiors of the pure black as well as the one possessed of the least vital force.
- Mr. Lillie Geoffroy a child off a Frenchman and a negro women was just as smart as a “white man”, but due to the fact that he wasn’t white created insignificance. If he was born white, “perhaps” he could have qualified to be more.
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- Morton’s friend and fellow polygenist George Gliddon was United States consul for the city of Cairo. He dispatched to Phila-delphia more than one hundred skulls from tombs of ancient Egypt, and as a result Morton reacted with his second major treatise, the Crania Aegyptiaca of 1844.
- Many of the Egyptian skulls came with mummified remains of their possessors and morgan could determine their sex effortlessly.
- Among nonpolygenist, “scientific” defenses of slavery, no arguments ever matched in absurdity the doctrines of S. A. Cartwright.
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