his name may not be familiar to you, this is john brown. john brown was enslaved in the mid 1800s and subjected to excruciating experiments by a georgian doctor named thomas hamilton. hamilton believe there were physiological differences between black and white people. and he used brown s body to prove that. after he escaped slavery brown described what happened to him in an autobiography. dr. hamilton sent to work to ascertain how deep my black skin was. this he did by applying blisters to my hands, legs, and faith. which bear the scars to this day. that happened because dr. hamilton, a sleeve owner, was
georgian doctor named thomas hamilton. hamilton believed there were physiological differences between black and white people. and he used brown s body to prove that. after he escaped slavery brown described what happened to him in an autobiography. dr. hamilton sent to work to ascertain how deep my black skin was. this he did by applying blisters to my hands, legs, and feet. which bear the scars to this day. that happened because dr. hamilton, a slave owner, was trying to scientifically bolster the prevailing ideology that black people were mentally and physically inferior to white people. and therefore benefited from enslavement. that thinking was so pervasive at the time that it spawned propaganda like this print from slavery apologists who pushed a narrative that enslaved blacks in the u.s. or better off than white factory workers. and it provided material for slave holders like south
his name may not be familiar to you, but this is john brown. john brown was enslaved in the mid-1800s and subjected to excruciating experiments by a georgia doctor named thomas hamilton. hamilton believed there were fizz logical differences between black and white people and used brown s buddy to prove it. after he escaped slavery brown described what happened to him in an auto biography. dr. brown set to work to ascertain how deep my black skin went, this he did by applying blisters to my hands, arms, and