#antenorfirmin

[blackhaiti]

Joseph Auguste Anténor Firmin 🇭🇹🌴

Antenor Firmin (18 October 1850 – 19 September 1911) is best known for his book On the Equality of Human Races, which was published as a rebuttal to French writer Count Arthur de Gobineau’s work Essay on the Inequality of Human Races. Gobineau’s book asserted the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of blacks and other people of color. Anténor Firmin, Minister of Finance, Commerce and Foreign Affairs …
Firmin’s work, first published in 1885, argued the opposite, that “all men are endowed with the same qualities and the same faults, without distinction of color or anatomical form. The races are equal”. He was marginalized at the time for his beliefs that all human races were equal.
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[radarekolokal-blog]

Joseph Anténor Firmin [1850 - 1911], homme politique et auteur haïtien « De l’égalité des races humaines » et de l’essai « M. Roosevelt, Président des États-Unis et la République d'Haïti ».  #antenorfirmin #anténorfirmin #haiti #ayiti #caphaitien #haitian #dahomey #petro #nago #kongo #ibo #ayibobo #zoenation #okap #anthropology #haitianhistory #ansanmnoufò #book #negritude #humanrace #thisishaiti #memories #radarekolokal https://www.instagram.com/p/B1KwJKOJy2H/?igshid=tbdl9z3j8zix

[hayonlineblog]

#hayonlineblackhistory Credit to @charlespnikola (Thank You for sharing !) : To all my Pan-African scholars out there how many of you know who’s this man in this picture? Swipe left to learn more about Anténor Firmin. #anténorfirmin #antenorfirmin #josephaugusteanténorfirmin #haitianhistory #haitiananthropologist #anthropology #anthropologist #haitian #haitianamerican #hayonline