Tag: Racism
Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism
Desmond and Moore tell us that Darwin assured his sisters that his principles on slavery hadn’t changed despite spending five years living with Captain FitzRoy.
“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist
I offer a series of posts here designed to lay out the evidence in detail. It is not merely that Desmond and Moore are selective in the sources they cite.
When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West
Olufemi Oluniyi details how Darwinism fueled pseudo-scientific racism against Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West.
Darwin’s Contribution to Racial Extermination
These men and others argued that the logical extrapolation of Darwin’s theory was the extermination of their fellow humans in the name of evolutionary progress!
John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa
The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.