The Leopard’s Spots

The Leopard’s Spots Scientific Attitudes Toward Race in America 1815-59 by William Stanton, University of Chicago Press, 1960 First Edition , Hard Back. Embossed ‘Ex Libris of Michael H Harris’. Working from original sources and documents, the author describes the often-bizarre contortions of “science” to justify American slavery in the first half of the 19th century.