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Darwin and slavery
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Darwin was horrified by his encounters with slavery whilst on the Beagle voyage. Learn about the transatlantic slave trade through the context of his experiences.
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- … Darwin believed that the enslavement of people was barbaric and, like the rest of his family, …
Charles Lyell
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As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's scientific life. Born to a wealthy gentry family in Scotland in 1797, Lyell had a classical and legal education but by the 1820s had become entranced by…
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- … two men disagreed about many issues, particularly about slavery . Most strikingly, early editions …
John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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- … attack that monstrous stain on our boasted liberty, Colonial Slavery. ’ Anticipating his …
That monstrous stain: To J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833
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Darwin did not consider himself to be a particularly good writer, but many of his letters contain not just a wealth of information, but also beautifully expressed descriptions and impressions that would be the envy of any essayist or novelist. Such is the…
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- … attack that monstrous stain on our boasted liberty, Colonial Slavery.— I have seen enough of Slavery …
- … within a couple of months of the date of this letter, the Slavery Abolition Act (3 & 4 Will. IV …
- … in 1807). Darwin came from a family long opposed to slavery, but his personal experience of seeing …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … low Islands and Shoals. – For the abolition of slavery in Brazil – I invented a plan (for …
- … I may nevertheless whilst at the subject of Slavery mention another plan – imagined by Mr Ross as …
- … – “Imitate (says he) the process by which personal Slavery was ultimately abolished in England & …
- … own Radical age The term Subject holds up – of Slavery the badge I therefore trust …
- … of these Isles having some peculiar privileges in regard to slavery granted on their putting …
- … hands – and if he had held any good right to keep us in Slavery – no doubt he would have got …
- … 1 st That – whenever during the time that Slavery was a legal institution in the Colonial …
- … – takes that servitude entirely out of the category of Slavery, or Slave service and places all such …
- … I headed my page ^now here under notice^ with the word “Slavery.” As for the attention or …
Charles Darwin: the Beagle letters
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This volume contains the complete texts of all the letters that the young naturalist Charles Darwin wrote and received while sailing round the world on the surveying ship the Beaglebetween 1831 and 1836. They start with letters written as a new and…
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- … how to catch ostriches from a running horse. We witness slavery, political revolution, and epidemic …
Darwin soundbites
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From atheistical cats to old fogies in Cambridge, we've collected some of Darwin's pithier remarks - some funny, some serious - but all quotes from letters you can read in full here. We particularly like this one: Will you be so kind as…
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- … attack that monstrous stain on our boasted liberty, Colonial Slavery. Where's it …
The Darwin and Human Nature film series
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We chose four films to cover a broad chronology from the early 19th to the early 20th century; and a range of themes, including teaching Darwinism, slavery and race, degeneration in Victorian society, the boundaries between normal and abnormal in the…
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- … and a range of themes, including teaching Darwinism, slavery and race, degeneration in Victorian …
Teachers notes: Offer of a lifetime
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The Offer of a Lifetime? Activities for: English Key Stage 3 and 4 When Darwin was 22 he received an exciting and unique opportunity to join HMS Beagle. The voyage changed his life but the letters show how close he came to not going at all! …
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- … The Beagle Voyage/ Darwin’s Scientific Women / Darwin and Slavery Packs can be used on-line …
Maldonado, Uruguay
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Disgusted by slavery
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- … to take on Syms Covington as an assistant, and comments on slavery. …
4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2
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< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…
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- … Daniel Conway, the American freethinker and opponent of slavery, ‘plants his tent to catch the …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … abolitionism, and his experiences of the atrocities of slavery during the Beagle voyage, as well as …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
The Letters
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Darwin’s correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. Letters form the largest single category of Darwin’s…
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- … his own health and that of his family; he was an opponent of slavery and a supporter of local …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … while hoping openly that the war may result in an end to slavery in the USA. Canon fire. …
- … should not regret it so much if I could persuade myself that slavery would be annihilated. …But …
- … and that the middle States will join with the South on Slavery and eject the northern states. …
- … on the subject. The man has not a shade of feeling against slavery. 164 My good wife wishes …
- … as an organised power, is essentially brought to an end. Slavery is done away, and we have now the …
- … I can hardly yet realise the grand, magnificent fact that Slavery is at end in your country. 173 …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … wrote on the subject, with ‘not a shade of feeling against slavery’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
