After their bodies were dismembered over a century in the past and their skulls despatched to Germany in racially-biased phrenology analysis, the stays of 19 African People were returned to Unique Orleans for a accurate ship off. In some unspecified time in the future in the 1880’s Unique Orleans physician Dr. Henry D. Schmidt despatched 19 crania to Leipzig, Germany for analysis.
The analysis believed cranium shape might presumably decide persona traits. In 2023, researchers with College of Leipzig started organizing the return of 19 skulls. “It is a demonstration of our own morality here in New Orleans and in Leipzig with the professors there who wanted to do something to restore the dignity of these people,” historian Eva Baham said.
Baham, who led a team of researchers, accept as true with these 19 people died of natural causes. A jazz funeral in Unique Orleans turned into planned in their honour.
