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Even by Victorian standards, Hunt was a decided racist.

His paper " On a Negro's Place in Nature ", delivered before the BAAS in 1863, was met with hisses and catcalls.

What Hunt saw as " a statement of the simple facts " was in fact a defence of the subjection and slavery of African-Americans and a support of the belief in the plurality of human species.