Morton, Agassiz, and the Origins of Scientific Racism in the United States

From: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The | Date: January 31, 2002| Author: Menand, Louis | Copyright information


Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The

01-31-2002

IN THE MONTHS between his arrival in Boston in October 1846 and his
delivery of the Lowell Lectures that winter, Louis Agassiz had made a quick
tour of the Northeast for the purpose of introducing himself to the
American scientific establishment. He ended up spending most of his time in
Philadelphia, where he was in the frequent company of a man named Samuel
George Morton. Morton was the most famo...

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