The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism

The Skull Measurer\'s Mistake......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
1. The Discovery of Prejudices / Benjamin Franklin, 1764......Page 16
2. \"Whether a Slave, by coming into England, becomes free?\" / Granville Sharp, 1772......Page 22
3. \"Why not?\" / Georg Lichtenberg, 1778......Page 28
4. The Struggle Against the Slave Trade Begins / James Ramsay, 1784......Page 33
5. For Jews and Blacks / Henri Gregoire, 1789......Page 37
6. Doctor in Africa / Thomas Winterbottom, 1803......Page 43
7. The Skull Measurer\'s Mistake / Friedrich Tiedemann, 1837......Page 48
8. Poet Astray / William Howitt, 1838......Page 54
9. The Three Races of America / Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840......Page 59
10. The Myth of the Anglo-Saxon Master Race / Charles Anderson, 1850......Page 67
11. Let the Chinese Come! / Raphael Pumpelly, 1870......Page 73
12. Exterminating People Is Wrong / Langfield Ward, 1874......Page 81
13. \"Anti-Semitism, the monster of national emotion\" / Theodor Mommsen, 1880......Page 87
14. A Century of Dishonor / Helen Hunt, 1881......Page 96
15. The Silent South / George Cable, 1885......Page 105
16. White Natives of Europe / William D. Babington, 1895......Page 112
17. How Perilous Is the Yellow Peril? / Jacques Novicow, 1897......Page 119
18. \"The dying negro\" / Joseph Conrad, 1897......Page 125
19. \'\'Equality or massacre\'\' / Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, 1897......Page 137
20. The Miss Marple of Anthropology / Mary Kingsley, 1897......Page 146
21. For a Democratic South Africa / Olive Schreiner, 1897......Page 152
22. Denied Heritage / Theophilus Scholes, 1899......Page 160
Sequence of Events......Page 167
Bibliography......Page 173