USHER, William
1 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source "White House Fixtures: Employes Who Served Under Many Administrations." The Washington Post . April 11, 1897, p. 18. · "White House Fixtures: Employes Who Served Under Many Administrations." The Washington Post . April 11, 1897, p. 18. (personal scan) · Public domain
1854 CE
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Types of mankind: or, ethnological researches based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history; illustrated by selections from the indedited papers of Samuel George Morton, and by additional contributions by L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H. S. Patterson
Nott, a prominent physician and anthropologist in Mobile, Alabama, employed polygenist arguments to justify slavery. This required resoilving the problem of racial hybridity. Polygenists claimed that different races w…