HW 2/20

PVF The Race Question

Abolitionists thought that there needed to be more amendments after ratification of the 13th amendment. The 14th and 15th amendment gave more rights to African Americans. Some said that the purpose of the amendments was to protect African Americans from White aggression. There is a racial prejudice that fuels the exclusion of African Americans. The main point in the race question is that if African Americans could be absorbed into the race, then there would be peace. However, he talks about how this can not be done. He thinks that the separation of races under different governments would help.

TMM 82-92

Agassiz wanted race separation. Morton was revered scientist and data collector for collecting human skulls. He thought that races could be ranked based on the brain’s physical traits and size. Morton was leader among Polygenists in America. Morton looked through Egyptian drawings and saw that blacks were shown as servants. He therefore concluded that this is their biological role. Morton published three major books on the size of human skulls. The author believes that Morton work was flaws and that he used convenient data to support his claim