Benjamin Banneker believed that the African race was just as capable and intelligent as whites. He was a supporter of the abolitionist movement and even challenged President Jackson on his view regarding slavery and black rights.
Benjamin Banneker lived and believed the fact that blacks possessed equal intellectual capacity and mental capabilities as the white people referenced in the declaration of independence.
Benjamin Banneker did not oppose equal rights for Black individuals; in fact, he was an advocate for racial equality. He is best known for his efforts to promote civil rights and his correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, in which he challenged Jefferson's views on race and slavery. Banneker's accomplishments as a mathematician, astronomer, and writer served to demonstrate the intellectual capabilities of Black people, which he used to argue for their equal rights and treatment in society.
Because they looked down on blacks and classifeid them as inferior. To them, swimming with blacks was no different than swimming with an animal.
IN his only book "Notes on Virginia". Among his work about ports and such, he goes on to say that "blacks are inferior to whites" http://www.historytools.org/sources/Jefferson-Race.pdf
Racial Doctrine. (Blacks inferior to Whites.)
Booker T. Washington publicly argued that blacks should accept their inferior social position yet secretly worked to advance their civil rights.
Booker T. Washington publicly argued that blacks should accept their inferior social position yet secretly worked to advance their civil rights.
he showed Jefferson how Jefferson was wrong in Jefferson's views of african americans by quoting Jefferson in a letter to Jefferson about how blacks were not inferior like Jefferson said and went against Jefferson.
Because it was thought by some whites that blacks were inferior.
By passing laws that gave blacks an inferior status
They got their rights and became able to live life like the whites and not feel inferior.
Darwin claimed blacks and Aborigines, would be eliminated and disappear in the struggle for survival because they were inferior. in his book The Descent of Man. While this view was prevalent among all Englishmen of his day, his stance gave credence to the Nazi movement to claim that the Aryan race was superior.