'Agassiz and others used polygenism to boost scientific support for slavery, to the extent that, as the anthropologist Charles Loring Brace points out in ‘Race’ is a Four-Letter Word (2004), their advocacy became a contributing factor to the American Civil War.'
https://aeon.co/essays/modern-racism-rests-on-scientific-theories-from-the-19th-century
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