Was there a disagreement between Charles Darwin and his father Josiah Wedgewood?
Has the philosophy of the origin of man vis a vis development and the philosophy that "the slave is our brother," as the Christmas story says come as a point of contention in the Darwin home? Josiah Wedgwood pottery famoud the Wedgewood and Waterford Crystal things for Europeans of his time was part of the turning point in the history of abolishion the slave trade. He made a record with the incription Am I not a Man and a Brother up a picture of a slave. Were there any disagreements with Josiah, the father and his famous son about blacks? Josiah clear thought the slave is our brother, and we should act Sun
Darwin was also a staunch opponent of slavery, and would have no material differences from his father on that. "Imagine the chance, ever hanging over you, your wife and your little children – those objects which nature itself, the slaves this is pressing call his own – ripped out of you and sold like cattle at first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, their neighbor as themselves, who believe in God, profess love and pray that his will be done on earth! It makes your blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendents, with their boastful cry of liberty, were and are so guilty: but it is consolation to reflect that we at least have a greater sacrifice than each nation, by some, to atone for our sin. "- Charles Darwin, writing in" The Voyage of the Beagle "(1839)
Don Carpentier and Josiah Spode – Preserving a Legacy of Greatness
