Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by James R. Moore, Adrian J. Desmond
Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
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James R. Moore, Adrian J. Desmond
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Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

James R. Moore, Adrian J. Desmond

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Leading apologists for slavery in Darwin's time argued that blacks and whites had originated as separate species, with whites created superior. Darwin abhorred such "arrogance." He believed that, far from being separate species, the races belonged...

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