Dr. Caldwell and the African Genocide

In 1838 on a trip back to Paris Dr. Caldwell met a French phrenologist named Pierre Dumontier now Dumontier had just spent three years traveling around the world and collecting skulls. They made wild pronouncements about what these bumps meant about the characteristics of these races most excitingly from a standpoint of Outrageous racism Caldwell found that areas in the top and back of the skull of Africans which corresponded he said to veneration and Cautiousness were enlarged in Africans during an exchange of letters one of his colleagues noted quote They are slaves because they are tameable called well replied depend upon it my good friend the Africans must have a master now Dr. Caldwell is evidence of