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12024-11-15T13:33:09-05:00Note - Anténor Firmin3plain2024-11-15T13:35:07-05:00Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was a Haitian anthropologist and civil servant. He famously wrote a rebuttal to the scientific racist treatise of Arthur de Gobineau entitled De l'égalité des races humaines in 1885. He was a cabinet member under several Haitian presidents in the 1880s and 1890s, and ran for president himself in 1902, but lost and subsequently went into exile in Saint-Thomas in the Danish West Indies. He is among the better known and influential Haitian intellectuals of the late nineteenth century. Learn more about Anténor Firmin.
