What is the difference between white and black people? Is there actually a difference?
With that question in mind, anatomist Petrus Camper conducted a public dissection of the body of a black man. The date was April 16th, 1766. The location: the former sacristy of the Broerkerk in Groningen.
‘White Moors’ is the second episode of the UKrant podcast Echoes, which features stories from four centuries of the University of Groningen. UKrant editors Christien Boomsma and Rob van der Wal take you back to this famous public lecture by Petrus Camper and explore how he dealt with the questions of his time.
Next week, episode 3: ‘The First Dutch Car’, about the steam-powered vehicle which Sibrandus Stratingh drove through the streets of Groningen in 1834.