Race

Introduction

 

Documents

Richard Watson (unknown dates) Religious Instruction of Slaves in the West India Colonies Advocated and Defended (1824)
Robert Wedderburn (1763-1835) The Horrors of Slavery and Other Writings (1824)
James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) Reasearches into the Physical History of Man (1826)
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ‘Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question’, in Fraser’s Magazine (1849)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) ‘The Negro Question’, in Fraser’s Magazine (1850)
Robert Knox (1791-1862) The Races of Men (1850)
Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882) Essai sur l'inigaliti des races humaines' (An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races) (1855)
Mary Seacole (1805-1881) 'Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many lands', extract from her Autobiography (1857)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) 'Progress: Its Law and Causes', in The Westminster Review, Vol 67 (1857)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The Origin of the Species (1859)
Richard Burton (1821-1890) Lake Regions of Central Africa (1861)
Francis Galton (1822-1911) 'Hereditary Talent and Character', in Macmillian's Magazine (June and August 1865)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The Descent of Man (1871)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) 'Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts' (1899), translated into English in 1910 as 'The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century' (1910)
Arnold White (1848-1925) The Modern Jew', (1899)

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