Slavery & Science
The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Black & White: The Idea of Racial Purity.” You can listen to the entire episode here.
Historian Daryl Scott discusses rise of scientific racism and how race has evolved–and not evolved–in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Excerpted from: Black & White: The Idea of Racial Purity
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Slavery | U.S. History to 1877 :
[...] What is race anyway? [...]
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