Youth's Magazine,  3rd ser. 3 (1830), 353–54.

Mental Powers of African Negroes

Igdalia

Genre:

Extract, Anecdote; Afterword

Publications extracted:

Benjamin Rush

Subjects:

Race, Mathematics, Education


    The anecdote of the 'amazing mental faculties in African negroes, who could neither read nor write' is used to argue against objections to their education (353).



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