It is a sign of our time to make every effort to drag famous white individuals into the mud of racism. Here is another case perpetrated by the Royal Society of Chemistry!
This obsession with certain kinds of racism is disgusting! Some of the statements in this article are quite absurd! This article makes also an appalling attempt to associate or link Davy in some fashion with contemptible practices/experiments by other chemists of his time.
How shocking! Davy remained quiet on the question of ending the slave trade! Davy supposedly believed Africans are incapable of self improvement (was this not a very common prejudice of the time?).
"... The Davy Notebook Project began back in March 2019, when a pilot project recruited volunteers via the citizen science platform Zooniverse to transcribe five of Davy’s notebooks. ...
A darker side to Davy ...
Davy and race
Beyond the suggestions of Davy’s egotism and ill-temper, the notebooks project is also raising much more serious questions about Davy’s legacy. ... to look at Davy and his attitudes to race. ...
some of the volunteers uncovered ‘derogatory language’ relating to Black Africans in a notebook that Davy used as a teenager. ... – he talks about them as being “almost incapable of improvement ”.’ ...
Her research has shone a spotlight on the fact that a significant portion of Davy’s wife’s fortune came from the slave trade. She notes that while many of Davy’s contemporaries were beginning to call for the abolition of the slave trade – a major political concern of the era – Davy himself is ‘almost totally silent’ on the issue. ... some of Davy’s close peers are known to have carried out horrendous experiments on the causes of skin colour that involved bleaching and burning the skin of Black people. While there is no evidence that Davy himself was involved in such experiments, he was perceived at the time as an expert on skin pigmentation and his views were sought by other researchers whose own work would be deemed wholly unethical today. ..."
Her research has shone a spotlight on the fact that a significant portion of Davy’s wife’s fortune came from the slave trade. She notes that while many of Davy’s contemporaries were beginning to call for the abolition of the slave trade – a major political concern of the era – Davy himself is ‘almost totally silent’ on the issue. ... some of Davy’s close peers are known to have carried out horrendous experiments on the causes of skin colour that involved bleaching and burning the skin of Black people. While there is no evidence that Davy himself was involved in such experiments, he was perceived at the time as an expert on skin pigmentation and his views were sought by other researchers whose own work would be deemed wholly unethical today. ..."
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