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Despite being more prevalent down south, the Jim Crow laws did affect the societal views and protests of some Canadian citizens at the time. What was one reason some believed that Africans were inferior?
Often a theme of Social Darwinism (The effects of nature, evolution, etc. also effect humans) and Eugenics (aims to create a biologically pure and stronger form of humanity) Africans were seen near the bottom of the biological hierarchy due to past assumptions and odd tests of skull shapes, etc. for example DiCaprio explaining the slave skull in Django Unchained.