Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)
Scene on Radio
00:00
The Insidious Argument of Samuel Morton
Morton's work gave fuel to John Calhoun, the South Carolina Senator who led the fight in the 1840s to annex Texas as a slave state. Nott used Morton's claims to back up his own polygenist beliefs. He railed against abolitionists and claimed race mixing would produce infertile children.
Play episode from 18:19
Transcript
