Frederick Douglass’s Fight Against Scientific Racism

Martin Kelley — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:49:33 +0000

We shouldn’t be surprised that there’s a Quaker connection: Samuel George Morton was raised as a Friend and educated at the Quaker Westtown boarding school. A generation later, Friend Henry W Goddard coined the word “moron” in now-discredited pseudoscience.

He understood that the ends to which science could be used were forever bound up with the moral…

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