Samuel George Morton: The Roots of Race 3

This is the story of a Philadelphia-born man, considered by many to be the American father of #scientificracism - Samuel George Morton, author of Crania Americana (1839), also known as A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America. This is also the story of his second book - Crania Aegyptiaca, also known as Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History, and the Monuments (1844). These two books provided part of the ideological foundation on which Scientific Racism thrived in the 19th century. #samuelgeorgemorton #race #racismingarenafreefire