Annotations of “The Race Question in the United States” (pg. 62-76):
- This is by John Tyler Morgan
- Morgan was born in the eastern hills of Tennessee, and grew up in Alabama.
- In 1890 Morgan was instrumental in defeating two important post-Reconstruction bills: the Blair and Force Bills.
- In 1900 about 180,000 blacks were eligible to vote in Alabama.
- Morgan was also considered a progressive in his economic policy, which advocated the growth of industry and trade in the South.
- The 14th and 15th amendments furnish a strong support for the contention of the negro race that it was the purpose of these amendments to give them higher and more definite security for their liberties than was provided for the white race.
- Social and political questions connected with the African race, in the United States, all relate to and depend upon the essential differences between the negro and the white man, as they have been arranged by the hand of the Creator.
- Slavery has been a rudimentary condition – the first exercise of political government, after the family government, and no nation or race is to be despaired of because it’s government was first rooted in slavery.
- This inferiority and dependence excited, in all classes of white people, that’s sort of Christian benevolence that compassionates, always, the poorest and least attractive of the human family. The Christian training of the Negro race in the south is the undesirable proof of the state of sentiment towards them.
- The first movement of the Negro party in the south, and of their white leaders there and in Congress, was directed to the vital point of securing raise equality, and social as well as political privileges, by the compulsion of law.
Annotations of “The Mismeasure of Man” (82-92):
- Samuel George Morton—empiricist of polygeny
- Agassiz did not spend all his time in Philadelphia reviling black waiters.
- Morton won his reputation as the great data-gatherer and objectivist of American science, the man who would raise an immature enterprise from the mires of fanciful speculation.
- Morton gathered skulls neither for the dilettante’s motive of abstract interest nor the taxonomist’s zeal for complete repre-sentation.
- Morton published three major works on the sizes of human skulls—his lavish, beautifully illustrated volume on American Indians, the Crania Americana of 1839
- Morton began his first and largest work, the Crania Americana of 1839, with a discourse on the essential character of human races.
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