Darwin 's sacred cause. Race, slavery and the quest for human origins 1st U.S. Edition.
de DARWIN, CHARLES / DESMOND, ADRIAN & MOORE, JAMES
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. HARDCOVER . XXI +, 484 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., maps extensive, index, notes and bibliogr. (Orig cloth, with gilded spine. Pictorial dustjacket. UNUSED thus NEW) Charles Darwin's ideas resonate deeply in Western culture today, and his theory still lies at the heart of modern scientific evolutionary research. As other nineteenth-century figures fade, Darwin's theory of evolution still provokes controversy, spilling over into curriculum battles at state and local school boards in the United States and around the world. There is a mystery surrounding Darwin: How did this quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, come to embrace one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Darwin risked a great deal in publishing his theory of evolution, so something very powerful--a moral fire--must have propelled him. That moral fire, argue authors Desmond and Moore, was a passionate hatred of slavery. They draw on a wealth of fresh manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, diaries, and even ships logs to show how Darwin s abolitionism had deep roots in his mother s family and was reinforced by his voyage on the Beagle as well as by events in America. Leading apologists for slavery in Darwin s time argued that blacks and whites were separate species, with whites created superior. Darwin believed that the races belonged to the same human family, and slavery was therefore a sin
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- Darwin 's sacred cause. Race, slavery and the quest for human origins 1st U.S. Edition.
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