Louis Agassiz: The Roots of Race 4

This is the story of Swiss-born biologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) - one of the fathers of #scientificracism – known, among other things, for commissioning the photographing of African-American slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, to document racial differences, in an effort to prove to the world (in 1850) the physical and anatomical inferiority of Black folks to white Europeans. #louisagassiz #race #racism