3. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?

4. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?

5. Who was the naturalist that adopted the name Buffon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were William Lloyd Garrison's views when he first emerged as an abolitionist in the late 1820s?

2. Who was Peter Paul Simons and what did he contribute to the racial debate?

3. What is uplift suasion?

4. When and where did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place? What were its impacts?

5. What racist stereotypes were reinforced by "An Essay Concering Humane Understanding"?

6. What is monogenism?

7. What is climate theory?

8. Why is Leo Africanus notable historically?

9. What is Voltaire's significance in racial history?

10. What is polygenism? How did it promote racism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the viewpoints of Voltaire and Buffon. What line of thought does each of these thinkers express? Why? How did their perceptions of Blacks differ generally?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life, career, and work of W. E. B. Du Bois. When and where was Du Bois born? What views and ideals did Du Bois embrace early in his career? How did those ideals change over the course of his life? Why did they change? What are the successes and failures of Du Bois?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the origins and history of curse theory. When and where did this theory arise? How was this theory used to justify racism and slavery? How did this theory oppose climate theory?

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