An oddly sympathetic 1997 history of phrenology. While phrenology was not designedly or inherently racist, I'm not sure how you can describe its history without more focus on how its malleability made it a plaything of racists.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/facing-a-bumpy-history-144497373/ …
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I actually found a "phrenologist" in the 1860 census. It was a 31-year old woman in Cincinnati. I think she was basically a Tarot Card reader or fortune teller and the census taker described her as a phrenologist.pic.twitter.com/6f7onX3kRH
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Cool. Where phrenology really started taking a dark turn was with the rise of eugenics after the mid-1860s.
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BTW, the video of the TN rep citing the 3/5 clause is just...weird. I can't really follow his logic.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1389627527187021834?s=20 …
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Yeah, he's overselling. He has the fundamental thrust right, but nobody actually thought this would empower the feds to ban slavery.
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Yeah, I mean, refusing to count enslaved people at all would have done that work. This is just an odd riff and I suspected it would be something barely intelligible considering who was discussing it...
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Historical debates among state legislators are rarely enlightening, at least of history.
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And the point of his full remark is that people are misunderstanding history...
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