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SMITH, Samuel Stanhope (1750 – 1819)

SMITH, Samuel Stanhope (1750 – 1819)

1750 – 1819

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Image source Charles B. Lawrence, American, active 1813–1825 · Princeton University Art Museum · Public domain

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1787 CE

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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species.

SMITH, Samuel Stanhope (1750 – 1819)
SMITH, Samuel Stanhope (1750 – 1819)

In the first significant anthropological work produced in America, Smith argued that racial differences were produced by environment, contradicting the prevalent theories of separate creations of discrete and differen…