6 Questions
According to the text, Samuel Stanhope Smith believed that improving the social environment would tap into the innate equality of humankind and dramatically uplift nonwhite races. This belief was influenced by
both European anthropology and republican optimism
According to the text, Thomas Jefferson believed that Black people were incapable of mental improvement and that they might even have a separate ancestry. This belief was known as
polygenesis
According to the text, many Americans believed that nature had made the white and Black races too different to peacefully coexist. As a solution to America's racial problem, they viewed
gradually sending freed Black people to Africa
According to the text, what was the significance of the white spots that appeared on Henry Moss' body in 1792?
The white spots turned Moss visibly white within three years
According to the text, which scientists did Henry Moss meet and what did they believe about his condition?
Henry Moss met Samuel Stanhope Smith and Dr. Benjamin Rush, who believed he was a living proof of their theory that leprosy caused blackness in Negroes
According to the text, what tension arose due to Enlightenment thinkers' desire to classify and order the natural world?
A tension between the belief in common humanity and the desire to classify races based on skin color
Discover the incredible story of Henry Moss, a once-enslaved man who turned visibly white in the 18th century. Take this quiz to test your knowledge on his journey to becoming a famous curiosity in Philadelphia and his encounters with renowned scientists of the time.
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