Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The Intelligence of the Negro

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“The Intelligence of the Negro”
In the work Toussaint Louverture, there is a 1931 clause by James in which he argues with the statements made by Dr. Harland and others. In this point James argues with Dr. Harland’s , “Race Admixture” that talks about how “the negro lineage are inferior to intelligence to the white” (189:1). Dr. Harland starts ~ means of pointing out the definition in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1884, “..the preamature ossifactation to the cranium, preventing all further development of the brain, one inferiority which is even more conspicuous by their physical differences” (190:6). Harland goes adhering to quote different editions of the Britannica and how the definition changes through the years. James claims that “no longer is the inferiority “more remarkable than physical differences”” and that “of the inferiority, though probable, lacks proof” (191:2). James has ben on every side his people and knows that they are not poorer and that Harland does not want to use books and things to represent fully that negroes are inferior in penetration but to “sit up and take mention” (193:1) A doctor does every investigation on the intelligence of races, place that “pure negroes scored 69.2 through cent high as the whites” (193:2). James argues that “Ferguson was sufficiency for him. He gives us none hint on what the tests were like” (194:3).
James explains that Toussaint was a generous person and Commander-in-Chief ..
Toussaint L’Overture was a coachman in Hayti until he was well over forty. About 1790, at the time about fifty years of age, he joined the Haytian force as a physician and rose swiftly to command. But Toussaint had individual passionate aim - the liberation of the dusky from slavery. (195:3)
3When Dr. Harland classifies Toussaint, “he puts him in Class F, the lowest of the surpassing classes, 1/4,300” (196:2). Toussaint was a large and powerful negro and the Doctor ever puts him in one of the lowest classes. It does not attain sense to James because in his eyes Toussaint is a true smart...

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