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Monogenesis is the scientifically accepted theory that all of humanity, including all races, originate from the same group.
Monogenesis Quotes in Stamped from the Beginning
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Chapter 9: Created Equal
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The ambitious politician, maybe fearful of alienating potential friends, maybe torn between Enlightenment antislavery and American proslavery, maybe honestly unsure, did not pick sides between polygenesists and monogenesists, between segregationists and assimilationists, between slavery and freedom. But he did pick the side of racism.
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Chapter 14: Imbruted or Civilized
...there is a “virtual consensus” around white superiority and scholars still remain gripped by the monogenesis versus polygenesis debate. In 1842, a scientific controversy emerges when Harvard-educated psychiatrist Edward Jarvis realizes...
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