Until Darwin Science Human Variety and the Origins of Race

This work fills a gap in recent studies on the history of race and science. Focusing on both the classification systems of human variety and the development of science as the arbiter of truth, Brown looks at the rise of the emerging sciences of life and society – biology and sociology – as well as the debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Introduction: Ecce Homo or Slavery And Human Variety; Chapter 1 Classification and the Species Question; Chapter 2 Polygenesis and the Types of Mankind; Chapter 3 Darwin in Context: Science Against Slavery; conclusion Conclusion: The Authority of the Sciences of Life;