Assertion: physical anthropology | /r/HasProperty | prominent
Facets:
value: in the 1830s
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the debate about slavery
type: LOCATION
value: in 1840s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton (1799–1851).