CALDWELL, Charles (1772 – 1853)
1772 – 1853
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Autobiography of Charles Caldwell, M.D. (1855) · Public domain
1824
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Elements of phrenology.
The first book on phrenology written by an American. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1830
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Thoughts on the original unity of the human race.
The first important American presentation of the case for polygenesis in support of slavery. Caldwell presented the first important American critique of the monogenist theories of human ancestry promoted by Samuel Sta…