Was there any difference of opinion between Charles Darwin and his Father in law Josiah Wedgewood?
Did the philosphy of the descent of man vis a vis evolution and the philosphy that “the slave is our brother” , as the Christmas Carol says, come as a point of contention in the Darwin home?
Josiah Wedgewood who made the famoud wedgewood pottery and waterford crystal things for Europeans of his day was part of the turning point in the history of the abolishion of the slave trade. He made a plate with the incription AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER above a picture of a slave.
Was there any disagreements with Josiah, the father in law and his famous son about Blacks? Josiah clearly believed the slave is our brother and we should act so.
Darwin was also a staunch opponent of slavery, and would have had no difference of opinion from his father in law on that matter.
“Picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children – those objects which nature urges even the slave to call his own – being torn from you and sold like beast to the first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbors as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! It makes one’s blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty: but it is consolation to reflect, that we at least have made a greater sacrifice, than ever made by any nation, to expiate our sin.”
- Charles Darwin, writing in “The Voyage of the Beagle” (1839)
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