Edward Long

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Edward Long

British colonial jurist and plantation owner

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Transforming race into species
…was given great weight was Edward Long (1734–1813), a former plantation owner and jurist in Jamaica. In a book titled The History of Jamaica (1774), Long asserted that “the Negro” was “void of genius” and “incapable” of civilization; indeed, he was so far inferior as to constitute a separate species…
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…was given great weight was Edward Long (1734–1813), a former plantation owner and jurist in Jamaica. In a book titled The History of Jamaica (1774), Long asserted that “the Negro” was “void of genius” and “incapable” of civilization; indeed, he was so far inferior as to constitute a separate species…
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