Agassiz’s basic view was that all humans were created differently, with different talents. People of color had different but inferior talents to those of whites, and these differences should be studied so the best could be gotten out of each race. Just as Hume and Kant had before him, he based his theory on the supposition that Africans had never created a civilization, never developed “regulated societies,” had always been slaves and therefore should remain so. Furthermore, Agassiz believed that because of this, it was a waste of time and effort to give Africans the educational and cultural
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