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Part Two: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism

Behind the Bastards

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Cannibalism in Central Africa

In the late 19th century avid school collector and Congo explorer George Swinefirth found school so easily attainable in the Congo that for him this was ample proof of African cannibalism. A Scottish naturalist James S. Jameson paid a local tribal leader in central Africa 10 handkerchiefs for his men to eat a 10 year old girl possibly apocryphal there's some debate as to whether or not this happened but there's writings about it. Belgium first started occupying land in what is now Rwanda in 1912 and their holdings grew at the end of World War I when they were given Germany's land in Africa as retaliation for the German occupation. The myth of ancient Ethiopian ancestry and racial

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