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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Samuel George Morton
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Samuel George Morton
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: January 26
Died: 1851
Died: May 15
Anthropologist
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Philadelphia
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Humanity
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