Phrenology in America - Charles Caldwell

Dr. Charles Caldwell was a slave owner from Kentucky who fell in love with phrenology while visiting Paris in the 1820s Despite being a doctor Caldwell didn't actually have a medical practice for the last 50 years of his life unlike doctors Galan Spursheim He did no actual research Primarily he lectured about phrenology and when he lecturedabout phrenology Was mainly lecturing about why black people should be owned by white people Thanks to Caldwell American phrenology took off like a bullet in the 1830s and 40s.