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philosophers*, mathematicians ■f', philologians;};, historians §, advocates, medical men |], 
poets and musicians. Many Negroes have distinguished themselves by their talents 
in military tactics and politics **. 
Not all Negro tribes can be called barbarous, nor have they all remained in a wild 
and barbarous state, as many historians and naturalists have too hastily asserted. 
Mungo Park, Denham, and Clapperton mention large towns, as Houssa, Kocka, 
Kaschne, Sego, and others, in which there are schools established for the education 
of youth : there is even a certain kind of literature amongst them, and men who 
study the Koran and some Arabian works. We must say with Robinson of all the 
tribes of the Ethiopian race, as well as of all other human races, “ Whatever their 
tints may be, their souls are still the same.” 
The principal result of my researches on the brain of the Negro, is, that neither 
anatomy nor physiology can justify our placing them beneath the Europeans in a 
moral or intellectual point of view. How is it possible, then, to deny that the Ethio- 
pian race is capable of civilization ? This is just as false as it would have been in the 
time of Julius Caesar to have considered the Germans, Britons, Helvetians, and Ba- 
tavians incapable of civilization. The slave trade was the proximate and remote 
* Ant. Wilh. Amo, who got the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Wittenberg. Diss. Philosophica de 
Humanse Mentis cnraOeia s. sensionis ac facultatis sentiendi in mente humana absentia et earum in corpore 
nostro organico ac vivo prsesentia, aut A. G. Amo, Guinea- Afro. Wittenbergse, 1734. — Diss. Philosophica 
continens ideam distinctam eorum, quae competunt vel menti vel corpori nostro vivo vel organico. 
t Hannibal, Lieutenant-General and Director of the Engineers in the time of the Czar Peter I. and his 
son, who made the plan of the harbour and fortress Cherson in the time of Potemkin. 
Lislet Geoffroy, an officer in the Engineers in the Isle of France, was elected Corresponding Member of 
the Parisian Academy on account of his good meteorological observations. 
Thom. Fuller, of Virginia, distinguished by his arithmetical talents. 
Benj. Bannacker, Negro from Maryland. He edited at Philadelphia an Almanac for the year 1794, con- 
cerning the motions of the sun and moon, the true places and aspects of the planets. 
X Don Juan Latino, Professor of the Latin language at the University of Sevilla. 
§ Ignatius Sancho, esteemed by Garrick and Sterne. Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African. 
London, 1784. 3rd. edit. 
Gustav. Vassa, who lived in London. He has given the interesting narrative of the Life of Olaudah 
Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, written by himself. London, 1791. 3rd edit. 
Othello, Negro from Baltimore, who has written a paper against Negro slavery. 
|] James Derham, physician in New Orleans, of whom the celebrated Dr. Rush says : “ I have conversed 
with him upon most of the acute and epidemic diseases of the country where he lives, and was pleased to find 
him perfectly acquainted with the modern simple mode of practice in those diseases. I expected to have sug- 
gested some new medicines to him, but he suggested many more to me.” 
Francis Williams, who wrote some good Latin poems. 
Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant at Boston, wrote poems on various subjects, religious and moral. Wal- 
pole, 1803. 
** The unfortunate Toussaint Louverture, who imitated Napoleon in St. Domingo. 
Denham and Clapperton give interesting portraits of Bello, the sultan of Kaschna, and of the sultans of 
Loggun, Kouka, and of the general Barca Ghana in Bournos. 
