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- Gould believes that Morton’s work is not a case of conscious fraud because he has honestly convinced himself that he has no prior prejudices that will affect his studies, and is unaware of the fact that he is sort of unconsciously forcing his data to fit in with prejudices he thinks he doesn’t have
“The Race Question in the United States”
- Rhetorical Triangle
- Writer: John Tyler Morgan
- Issue: He views the issue as the Blair and Force Bills
- Gap: He believes that the gap is that other people do not understand that races can not co-exist peacefully because they are naturally different
- Intended Readers: people who are going to vote on the Blair and Force Bills, other white people, other politicians,
- Toulmin Method
- Claim: African-Americans are naturally inferior to whites
- Reason: Morgan believes that God made all races differently and intended for whites to be superior, and these differences makes it impossible for people of different races to get along
- Evidence: He believes that the 14th and 15th Amendments prove that African Americans need laws to protect them from their “natural inability to preserve their freedom” and are forcing an unnatural union of races
- Warrant: He is arguing towards the shared values of white supremacy/racism that were held by most people in this time period
- Counterargument: Abolitionists feel that social equality was a good thing
- Rebuttal: This has only aggravated things and made the anger between races worse
- Emotions: Morgan is trying to scare and anger his readers to cause more friction between whites and blacks
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