HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Us Weekly, Monogenism, Polygenism
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Race for manifest destiny american indian responses. Filibusters from spanish filibustero from dutch vribuiter (freebooter) freebooters sought out free loot used to name pirates in the 17th century. Filibustering expeditions: cuba, soldiers under leadership of narciso l pez landed on the island in 1850 and 1851, nicaragua, interest in the area for its potential agricultural resources and also possibility of building a canal. Providence fits its agents for great designs by trials and sufferings and persecutions. (145) "by way of the cross thou shalt conqueror" is as clearly written in the pages of history as when the startled emperor saw it blazing in letters of light athwart the heavens. (145) 1845 superior race becomes forefront of manifest destiny. Types of mankind (1854) studied people as distinct races separated racial groups into types as species argued for polygenism versus monogenism (biblical) cranium measurements belief that larger brains have more capacity.
