“The race question in the united states”
- john tyler morgan (1824 – 9107)
- john wanted to defeat two bills (the blair and force bill)
- blair bill – committed federal education funds to the states to combat illiteracy
- force bill – responds to efforts to deny blacks the vote through intimidation and fraud by providing for federal supervision of elections
- fiercely opposed to black suffrage he worked hard to defeat the land
- ratification of the constitution
- to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
- the 14th and 15th amendments furnish a strong support for the
“The Measure of Man”
- Samuel George Morton – Empiricist of polygeny
- they wanted to take a trip to america because they heard of a place filled with over 600 skulls that were from Indians. this would be great for experimenting.
- Not all detractors of blacks were so generous. E. D. Cope, who feared that miscegenation would block the path to heaven
- Agassi z speculated freely and at length, but he amassed no data to support his polygenic theory.
- The craniological treasures which you have been so fortunate as to
unite in your collection, have in you found a worthy interpreter. Your
work is equally remarkable for the profundity of its anatomical views, the
numerical detail of the relations of organic conformation, and the absence
of those poetical reveries which are the myths of modern physiology (in
Meigs, 1851, - he spent several weeks analyzing Morton beliefs.
- Morton began his first and largest work, the Crania Americana
of 1839
- Morton’s summary chart presents the “hard ” argument of the Crania Americana.
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