Anthropology and slavery from Blumenbach to the American Civil War
Prof. Dr. Hans-Konrad Schmutz (Zürich): Anthropology and slavery from Blumenbach to the American Civil War Talk given at the international symposium "Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Culture of Science in Europe around 1800" in Göttingen, April 23rd/24th 2015. Prof. Dr. Hans-Konrad Schmutz examines the complex relationship between the emerging scientific anthropology and politics around 1850, focussing on the question of legitimizing or abolishing slavery. The spectrum of scientific systems ranged from Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s (1752-1840) aesthetical monogenism, James Cowles Prichard’s (1786-1848) biblical monogenism and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages’ (1810-1892) morphological monogenism to the different partly conservative or progressive polygenisms around James Hunt (1833-1869), Franz Ignaz Pruner Bey (1808-1882) or Paul Broca (1824-1880) and their circles of London and Paris anthropologists in the 1860s. More information: http://www.blumenbach-online.de
Prof. Dr. Hans-Konrad Schmutz (Zürich): Anthropology and slavery from Blumenbach to the American Civil War Talk given at the international symposium "Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Culture of Science in Europe around 1800" in Göttingen, April 23rd/24th 2015. Prof. Dr. Hans-Konrad Schmutz examines the complex relationship between the emerging scientific anthropology and politics around 1850, focussing on the question of legitimizing or abolishing slavery. The spectrum of scientific systems ranged from Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s (1752-1840) aesthetical monogenism, James Cowles Prichard’s (1786-1848) biblical monogenism and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages’ (1810-1892) morphological monogenism to the different partly conservative or progressive polygenisms around James Hunt (1833-1869), Franz Ignaz Pruner Bey (1808-1882) or Paul Broca (1824-1880) and their circles of London and Paris anthropologists in the 1860s. More information: http://www.blumenbach-online.de