describing the Ethiopian race, he describes them with “woolly hair”, “lips thick”, “long narrow head”, and the “lowest grade of humanity”, nothing like the positive description of the Caucasian. Morton, being a white naturalist himself, presents a biased analysis of a so-called “scientific fact” attempting to be presented in his collection of essays, thus “proving” whites had larger brains than blacks. Nathanial Southgate Shalyer,…
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