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Django Unchained and the racist science of phrenology

Phrenology really was used to justify slavery, as portrayed in Django Unchained. But it was also used to justify abolition “Why don’t they kill us?” asks Calvin Candie, the southern slave owner in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. He wants to know why the African slaves he brutalises do not rise…