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109-581: Baldwin was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. His father, who was from Connecticut, was an abolitionist and was known to purchase slaves in order to free them. During the Civil War his father moved north, but the family remained in their home until the time of Sherman's March . Upon their return after the war, Baldwin's father was part of the Reconstruction Era government. Baldwin

218-816: A German torpedo attack on the Sussex in the English Channel  – on the return trip from a visit to William Osler at Oxford – his open telegram to the president of the United States on the affair became frontpage news ( New York Times ). With the entry of America in the war (1917) he helped to organize the Paris branch of the American Navy League, acting as its Chairman till 1922. In 1926 his memoirs Between Two Wars (1861-1921) were published. He died in Paris on November 8, 1934. Baldwin

327-541: A child, he filed a freedom suit , on the grounds that he could not be held as a slave in Great Britain . In the case of Knight v. Wedderburn (1778), Wedderburn said that Knight owed him "perpetual servitude". The Court of Session of Scotland ruled against him, saying that chattel slavery was not recognized under the law of Scotland , and slaves could seek court protection to leave a master or avoid being forcibly removed from Scotland to be returned to slavery in

436-449: A creative factor in the fabric of society, that helped the students of Baldwin to understand what was left of Lamarck's signature. Singularly illustrated by Gregory Bateson in Mind and Nature (1979) and reintegrated in contemporary studies by Terrence Deacon ( The Symbolic Species : The co-evolution of language and the human brain , 1997) and other scholars of biosemiotics . In

545-466: A reconciliation between a neo-Darwinian and a neo-Lamarckian approach and that "Mendelism and later genetic theory so conclusively ruled out the extreme neo-Lamarckian position that reconciliation came to seem unnecessary". In 1942, the evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley promoted the Baldwin effect as part of the modern synthesis, saying the concept had been unduly neglected by evolutionists. In

654-605: A writ of habeas corpus . As a result, Lord Mansfield , Chief Justice of the Court of the King's Bench , had to judge whether Somersett's abduction was lawful or not under English Common Law . No legislation had ever been passed to establish slavery in England. The case received national attention, and five advocates supported the action on behalf of Somersett. In his judgement of 22 June 1772, Mansfield declared: The state of slavery

763-439: Is a mechanism whereby epigenetic factors come to shape the congenital endowment as much as – or more than – natural selection pressures. In particular, human behavioral decisions made and sustained across generations as a set of cultural practices ought to be considered among the factors shaping the human genome. For example, the incest taboo , if powerfully enforced, removes the natural selection pressure against

872-481: Is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged. Although the exact legal implications of the judgement are unclear when analysed by lawyers, the judgement was generally taken at the time to have determined that slavery did not exist under English common law and was thus prohibited in England. The decision did not apply to the British overseas territories; by then, for example,

981-419: Is better understood in evolutionary developmental biology literature as a scenario in which a character or trait change occurring in an organism as a result of its interaction with its environment becomes gradually assimilated into its developmental genetic or epigenetic repertoire. In the words of the philosopher of science Daniel Dennett : Thanks to the Baldwin effect, species can be said to pretest

1090-622: Is legal. As the Empire of Japan annexed Asian countries, from the late 19th century onwards, archaic institutions including slavery were abolished in those countries. During the 20th century, the League of Nations founded a number of commissions, Temporary Slavery Commission (1924–1926), Committee of Experts on Slavery (1932) and the Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery (1934–1939), which conducted international investigations of

1199-416: Is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case

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1308-424: Is the movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies . Under the actions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi , chattel slavery has been abolished across Japan since 1590, though other forms of forced labour were used during World War II . The first and only country to self-liberate from slavery

1417-471: Is understood to play in the effect. The second is the connection between development and evolution in the effect. Baldwin's account of how neurophysiological and conscious mental factors may contribute to the effect brings into focus the question of the possible survival value of consciousness. Still, David Depew observed in 2003, "it is striking that a rather diverse lot of contemporary evolutionary theorists, most of whom regard themselves as supporters of

1526-744: The Book of Negroes , to establish which slaves were free after the war. In 1783, an anti-slavery movement began among the British public to end slavery throughout the British Empire. After the formation of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787, William Wilberforce led the cause of abolition through the parliamentary campaign. Thomas Clarkson became the group's most prominent researcher, gathering vast amounts of data on

1635-683: The Act Against Slavery of 1793 was passed by the Assembly under the auspices of John Graves Simcoe . It was the first legislation against slavery in the British Empire . Under its provisions no new slaves could be imported, slaves already in the province would remain enslaved until death, and children born to female slaves would be slaves but must be freed at the age of 25. The last slaves in Canada gained their freedom when slavery

1744-581: The American Revolution , there were few significant initiatives in the American colonies that led to the abolitionist movement. Some Quakers were active. Benjamin Kent was the lawyer who took on most of the cases of slaves suing their masters for personal illegal enslavement. He was the first lawyer to successfully establish a slave's freedom. In addition, Brigadier General Samuel Birch created

1853-615: The English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century, sectarian radicals challenged slavery and other threats to personal freedom. Their ideas influenced many antislavery thinkers in the eighteenth century. In addition to English colonists importing slaves to the North American colonies, by the 18th century, traders began to import slaves from Africa, India and East Asia (where they were trading) to London and Edinburgh to work as personal servants. Men who migrated to

1962-522: The Louisiana Territory to the United States. The French governments initially refused to recognize Haïti. It forced the nation to pay a substantial amount of reparations (which it could ill afford) for losses during the revolution and did not recognize its government until 1825. France was a signatory to the first multilateral treaty for the suppression of the slave trade, the Treaty for

2071-615: The Princeton Theological Seminary ) and used it to study in Germany with Wilhelm Wundt at Leipzig and with Friedrich Paulsen at Berlin during the following year. In 1886 he became Instructor in French and German at the Princeton Theological Seminary . He translated Théodule-Armand Ribot 's German Psychology of Today and wrote his first paper "The Postulates of a Physiological Psychology". Ribot's work traced

2180-590: The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Denmark (1897), and was honorary president of the International Congress of Criminal Anthropology held in Geneva in 1896. The idea of organic selection came from the interpretation of the observable data in Baldwin's experimental study of infant reaching and its role in mental development . Every practice of the infant's movement intended to advance

2289-740: The United Provinces of the River Plate in 1813, Colombia and Venezuela in 1821, but without abolishing slavery completely. While Chile abolished slavery in 1823, Argentina did so with the signing of the Argentine Constitution of 1853 . Peru abolished slavery in 1854. Colombia abolished slavery in 1851. Slavery was abolished in Uruguay during the Guerra Grande , by both the government of Fructuoso Rivera and

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2398-573: The United States , Pennsylvania and Vermont were the first states to abolish slavery, Vermont in 1777 and Pennsylvania in 1780 (Vermont did not join the Union until 1791). By 1804, the rest of the northern states had abolished slavery but it remained legal in southern states. By 1808, the United States outlawed the importation of slaves but did not ban slavery —except as a punishment— until 1865. In Eastern Europe, groups organized to abolish

2507-608: The government in exile of Manuel Oribe . Throughout the growth of slavery in the American South, Nova Scotia became a destination for black refugees leaving Southern Colonies and United States. While many blacks who arrived in Nova Scotia during the American Revolution were free, others were not. Black slaves also arrived in Nova Scotia as the property of White American Loyalists. In 1772, prior to

2616-400: The human species the faculty of niche building is favored by a practical intelligence able to design the circumstances that will put its vital acquirements out of harm's way in terms of (linearly predicted) natural selection . It is precisely in the fields of study relating to massive selection pressures against which other species seem to be without defenses – biological development in

2725-650: The overseas colonies . Some cases of African slaves freed by setting foot on French soil were recorded such as the example of a Norman slave merchant who tried to sell slaves in Bordeaux in 1571. He was arrested and his slaves were freed according to a declaration of the Parlement of Guyenne which stated that slavery was intolerable in France, although it is a misconception that there were 'no slaves in France'; thousands of African slaves were present in France during

2834-670: The " Baldwin Effect ". But other important contributors should not be overlooked. Conwy Lloyd Morgan was perhaps closest to understanding the so-called "Baldwin Effect". In his Habit and Instinct (1896) he phrased a comparable version of the theory, as he did in an address to a session of the New York Academy of Sciences (February 1896) in the presence of Baldwin. (1896/"Of modification and variation". Science 4(99) (November 20):733-739). As did Henry Fairfield Osborn (1896/"A mode of evolution requiring neither natural selection nor

2943-726: The 18th century. Born into slavery in Saint Domingue , Thomas-Alexandre Dumas became free when his father brought him to France in 1776. As in other New World colonies, the French relied on the Atlantic slave trade for labour for their sugar cane plantations in their Caribbean colonies; the French West Indies . In addition, French colonists in Louisiane in North America held slaves, particularly in

3052-406: The 1960s, the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr contended that the Baldwin effect theory was untenable because In 1987 Geoffrey Hinton and Steven Nowlan demonstrated by computer simulation that learning can accelerate evolution, and they associated this with the Baldwin effect. Paul Griffiths suggests two reasons for the continuing interest in the Baldwin effect. The first is the role mind

3161-439: The 1960s–1970s. This new version included an explicit role for the social in shaping subsequent natural change in humans (both evolutionary and developmental), with reference to alterations of selection pressures. Subsequent research shows that Baldwin was not the first to identify the process; Douglas Spalding mentioned it in 1873. Initially Baldwin's ideas were not incompatible with the prevailing, but uncertain, ideas about

3270-583: The American Revolution, Britain determined that slavery could not exist in the British Isles followed by the Knight v. Wedderburn decision in Scotland in 1778. This decision, in turn, influenced the colony of Nova Scotia. In 1788, abolitionist James Drummond MacGregor from Pictou published the first anti-slavery literature in Canada and began purchasing slaves' freedom and chastising his colleagues in

3379-536: The American colonies had established slavery by positive laws. Somersett's case became a significant part of the common law of slavery in the English-speaking world and it helped launch the movement to abolish slavery. After reading about Somersett's Case, Joseph Knight , an enslaved African who had been purchased by his master John Wedderburn in Jamaica and brought to Scotland, left him. Married and with

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3488-515: The Baldwin effect "no longer a controversial wrinkle in orthodox Darwinism". Potential genetic mechanisms underlying the Baldwin effect have been proposed for the evolution of natural (genetically determinant) antibodies. In 2009, empirical evidence for the Baldwin effect was provided from the colonisation of North America by the house finch . The Baldwin effect has been incorporated into the extended evolutionary synthesis . The Baldwin effect has been confused with, and sometimes conflated with,

3597-541: The British movement to abolish slavery. Though anti-slavery sentiments were widespread by the late 18th century, many colonies and emerging nations continued to use slave labour : Dutch , French , British , Spanish , and Portuguese territories in the West Indies, South America, and the Southern United States. After the American Revolution established the United States, many Loyalists who fled

3706-701: The Catholic faith, implying that Africans were human beings endowed with a soul, a fact French law did not admit until then. It resulted in a far higher percentage of Black people being free in 1830 (13.2% in Louisiana compared to 0.8% in Mississippi ). They were on average exceptionally literate, with a significant number of them owning businesses, properties, and even slaves. Other free people of colour, such as Julien Raimond , spoke out against slavery. The Code Noir also forbade interracial marriages, but it

3815-752: The Destruction of the Indies , contributed to Spanish passage of colonial legislation known as the New Laws of 1542 , which abolished native slavery for the first time in European colonial history. It ultimately led to the Valladolid debate , the first European debate about the rights of colonized people. During the early 19th century, slavery expanded rapidly in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, while at

3924-658: The French abolished slavery in most of French West Africa . The French also attempted to abolish Tuareg slavery following the Kaocen Revolt . In the region of the Sahel, slavery has long persisted. Passed on 10 May 2001, the Taubira law officially acknowledges slavery and the Atlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity . 10 May was chosen as the day dedicated to recognition of the crime of slavery. James Oglethorpe

4033-630: The French in the decisive Battle of Vertières finally led to independence and the creation of present Haiti in 1804. The convention, the first elected Assembly of the First Republic (1792–1804), on 4 February 1794, under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre , abolished slavery in law in France and its colonies. Abbé Grégoire and the Society of the Friends of the Blacks were part of

4142-630: The House of Lords. Biographer William Hague considers the unfinished abolition of the slave trade to be Pitt's greatest failure. The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire. Britain used its influence to coerce other countries to agree to treaties to end their slave trade and allow the Royal Navy to seize their slave ships . Britain enforced

4251-467: The Humanities (1909) and Individual and Society (1911) date from this period. In 1912 he took permanent residence in Paris. Baldwin's residence in France resulted in his pointing out the urgency of American non-neutral support for his new hosts on the French battlefields of World War I . He published American Neutrality, Its Cause and Cure (1916) for the purpose, and when in 1916 he survived

4360-624: The Laws (1748) and Denis Diderot in the Encyclopédie . In 1788, Jacques Pierre Brissot founded the Society of the Friends of the Blacks ( Société des Amis des Noirs ) to work for the abolition of slavery. After the Revolution, on 4 April 1792, France granted free people of colour full citizenship. The slave revolt, in the largest Caribbean French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791,

4469-607: The Modern Synthesis, have of late become 'Baldwin boosters'". These are typically evolutionary psychologists who are searching for scenarios in which a population can get itself by behavioral trial and error onto a "hard to find" part of the fitness landscape in which human brain, language, and mind can rapidly coevolve. They are searching for what Daniel Dennett , himself a Baldwin booster, calls an "evolutionary crane," an instrument to do some heavy lifting fast. According to Dennett, also in 2003, recent work has rendered

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4578-440: The North American colonies often took their East Indian slaves or servants with them, as East Indians have been documented in colonial records. Some of the first freedom suits , court cases in the British Isles to challenge the legality of slavery, took place in Scotland in 1755 and 1769. The cases were Montgomery v. Sheddan (1755) and Spens v. Dalrymple (1769). Each of the slaves had been baptized in Scotland and challenged

4687-478: The Northern United States immigrated to the British province of Quebec, bringing an English majority population as well as many slaves, leading the province to ban the institution in 1793 (see Slavery in Canada ). In the U.S., Northern states, beginning with Pennsylvania in 1780, passed legislation during the next two decades abolishing slavery, sometimes by gradual emancipation . Vermont, which

4796-554: The Presbyterian church who owned slaves. In 1790 John Burbidge freed his slaves. Led by Richard John Uniacke , in 1787, 1789 and again on 11 January 1808, the Nova Scotian legislature refused to legalize slavery. Two chief justices, Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1790–1796) and Sampson Salter Blowers (1797–1832) were instrumental in freeing slaves from their owners in Nova Scotia. They were held in high regard in

4905-497: The Race ) In later editions of Mental Development Baldwin changed the term " organic selection" into " functional selection". So, from the outset the idea was well linked to the philosophy of mind Baldwin was emancipating from the models inspired by divine pre-establishment. ( Spinoza ) (Wozniak, 2001) It is the communication of this insight into the practice-related nature of dynamogenic development, above all its integration as

5014-671: The Rights of Man that slavery was abolished. During the French Revolutionary Wars , French slave-owners joined the counter-revolution en masse and, through the Whitehall Accord , they threatened to move the French Caribbean colonies under British control, as Great Britain still allowed slavery. Fearing secession from these islands, successfully lobbied by planters and concerned about revenues from

5123-513: The South around New Orleans , where they established sugarcane plantations. Louis XIV 's Code Noir regulated the slave trade and institution in the colonies. It gave unparalleled rights to slaves. It included the right to marry, gather publicly or take Sundays off. Although the Code Noir authorized and codified cruel corporal punishment against slaves under certain conditions, it forbade slave owners to torture them or to separate families. It also demanded enslaved Africans receive instruction in

5232-492: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade (1841), but the king, Louis Philippe I , declined to ratify it. On 27 April 1848, under the Second Republic (1848–1852), the decree-law written by Victor Schœlcher abolished slavery in the remaining colonies. The state bought the slaves from the colons (white colonists; Békés in Creole ), and then freed them. At about the same time, France started colonizing Africa and gained possession of much of West Africa by 1900. In 1905,

5341-484: The United States outlawed the international slave trade in 1807, after which Britain led efforts to block slave ships . Britain abolished slavery throughout its empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (with the notable exception of India ), the French colonies re-abolished it in 1848 and the U.S. abolished slavery in 1865 with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . The last known form of enforced servitude of adults ( villeinage ) had disappeared in England by

5450-409: The West Indies, and influenced by the slaveholder family of his wife , Napoleon Bonaparte decided to re-establish slavery after becoming First Consul . He promulgated the law of 20 May 1802 and sent military governors and troops to the colonies to impose it. On 10 May 1802, Colonel Delgrès launched a rebellion in Guadeloupe against Napoleon's representative, General Richepanse . The rebellion

5559-411: The abolition of the trade because the act made trading slaves within British territories illegal. However, the act repealed the Amelioration Act 1798 which attempted to improve conditions for slaves. The end of the slave trade did not end slavery as a whole. Slavery was still a common practice. In the 1820s, the abolitionist movement revived to campaign against the institution of slavery itself. In 1823

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5668-409: The abolitionist movement, which had laid important groundwork in building anti-slavery sentiment in the metropole . The first article of the law stated that "Slavery was abolished" in the French colonies, while the second article stated that "slave-owners would be indemnified" with financial compensation for the value of their slaves. The French constitution passed in 1795 included in the declaration of

5777-450: The acquired traits had sunk into the hereditary substance in a Lamarckian fashion, but the process would really be neo-Darwinian . Selected offspring would tend to have an increased capacity for learning new skills rather than being confined to genetically coded, relatively fixed abilities. In effect, it places emphasis on the fact that the sustained behaviour of a species or group can shape the evolution of that species. The "Baldwin effect"

5886-411: The beginning of the 17th century. In 1569 a court considered the case of Cartwright, who had bought a slave from Russia. The court ruled English law could not recognize slavery, as it was never established officially. This ruling was overshadowed by later developments; It was upheld in 1700 by the Lord Chief Justice John Holt when he ruled that a slave became free as soon as he arrived in England. During

5995-496: The birth of his daughters Helen (1889) and Elizabeth (1891) which inspired the quantitative and experimental research on infant development that was to make such a vivid impression on Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg through Baldwin's Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes (1894) dedicated to the subject. A second part of Handbook of Psychology (Feeling and Will) appeared in 1891. During this creative phase Baldwin traveled to France (1892) to visit

6104-405: The colonies. But at the same time, legally mandated, hereditary slavery of Scots persons in Scotland had existed from 1606 and continued until 1799, when colliers and salters were emancipated by an act of the Parliament of Great Britain ( 39 Geo. 3 . c. 56). Skilled workers, they were restricted to a place and could be sold with the works. A prior law enacted in 1775 ( 15 Geo. 3 . c. 28)

6213-441: The colony. By the end of the War of 1812 and the arrival of the Black Refugees, there were few slaves left in Nova Scotia. The Slave Trade Act outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 outlawed slavery altogether. With slaves escaping to New York and New England, legislation for gradual emancipation was passed in Upper Canada (1793) and Lower Canada (1803). In Upper Canada,

6322-402: The concept that knowledge grows through childhood in a series of distinct stages that involve interaction between innate abilities and environmental feedback, a proposal that was taken back by Piaget. He further stated that the initial physical development gives way to language and cognitive abilities such that the child emerges as a result of social and physical growth. In Baltimore also Baldwin

6431-425: The critical stage in which it survived in the work of Lev Vygotsky , through Vygotsky in the crucial work of Alexander Luria , and in the synthesis of both by Aleksey Leontyev . He also edited the English editions of Karl Groos 's Play of Animals (1898) and Play of Men (1901). It was during this time that Baldwin wrote "A New Factor in Evolution" (June 1896/ The American Naturalist ) which later became known as

6540-463: The efficacy of particular different designs by phenotypic (individual) exploration of the space of nearby possibilities. If a particularly winning setting is thereby discovered, this discovery will create a new selection pressure: organisms that are closer in the adaptive landscape to that discovery will have a clear advantage over those more distant. An update to the Baldwin effect was developed by Jean Piaget , Paul Weiss , and Conrad Waddington in

6649-434: The enslavement of the Roma in Wallachia and Moldavia between 1843 and 1855, and to emancipate the serfs in Russia in 1861 . The United States would pass the 13th Amendment in December 1865 after having just fought a bloody Civil War , ending slavery "except as a punishment for crime". In 1888, Brazil became the last country in the Americas to outlaw slavery , except for the United States where slavery as punishment

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6758-420: The face of novel pandemics ( AIDS , mad cow disease ) – that the arguments relative to the natural heredity of intelligent acquirements have resurfaced in a way most challenging to science. Baldwin's most important theoretical legacy is the concept of the Baldwin effect or "Baldwinian evolution". Baldwin proposed, against the neo-Lamarckians of his day (most notably Edward Drinker Cope ), that there

6867-437: The first Anti-Slavery Society was wound up. In 1839, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was formed by Joseph Sturge , which attempted to outlaw slavery worldwide and also to pressure the government to help enforce the suppression of the slave trade by declaring slave traders to be pirates. The world's oldest international human rights organization, it continues today as Anti-Slavery International . Thomas Clarkson

6976-416: The first Anti-Slavery Society, the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions , was founded. Many of its members had previously campaigned against the slave trade. On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act was passed. It purchased the slaves from their masters and paved the way for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire by 1838, after which

7085-549: The first emancipation proclamation of the modern world (Decree of 16 Pluviôse An II). The Convention sent them to safeguard the allegiance of the population to revolutionary France. The proclamation resulted in crucial military strategy as it gradually brought most of the black troops into the French fold and kept the colony under the French flag for most of the conflict. The connection with France lasted until blacks and free people of colour formed L'armée indigène in 1802 to resist Napoleon 's Expédition de Saint-Domingue . Victory over

7194-434: The fitness conditions of new environments, cultural and physical, which earlier hominids could not have survived. Baldwinian evolution might strengthen or weaken a genetic trait. Baldwin's contribution to this field places him at the heart of contemporary controversies in the fields of evolutionary psychology and wider sociobiology . Few people did more than Robert Wozniak, Professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College , for

7303-487: The gradual ending of slavery. Baldwin Effect In evolutionary biology , the Baldwin effect describes an effect of learned behaviour on evolution. James Mark Baldwin and others suggested that an organism's ability to learn new behaviours (e.g. to acclimatise to a new stressor) will affect its reproductive success and will therefore have an effect on the genetic makeup of its species through natural selection . It posits that subsequent selection might reinforce

7412-478: The historian of science Robert Richards explains: If animals entered a new environment—or their old environment rapidly changed—those that could flexibly respond by learning new behaviours or by ontogenetically adapting would be naturally preserved. This saved remnant would, over several generations, have the opportunity to exhibit spontaneously congenital variations similar to their acquired traits and have these variations naturally selected. It would look as though

7521-527: The history of ideas for the 20th century. Compare for example Richard Gregory : The Oxford Companion to the Mind , first edition, 1987.) In 1903, partly as a result of a dispute with Princeton president Woodrow Wilson and in part due to an offer involving more pay and less teaching, he moved to a professorship of philosophy and psychology at Johns Hopkins University . Here, he re-opened the experimental laboratory that had been founded by G. Stanley Hall in 1884 (but had closed with Hall's departure to take over

7630-551: The important psychologists Jean-Martin Charcot (at the Salpêtrière ), Hippolyte Bernheim (at Nancy), and Pierre Janet . In 1893 he was called back to his alma mater, Princeton University , where he was offered the Stuart Chair in Psychology and the opportunity to establish a new psychology laboratory. He would stay at Princeton until 1903 working out the highlights of his career reflected in Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development: A Study in Social Psychology (1897) where he took his previous Mental Development to

7739-520: The inheritance of acquired characteristics". Transactions of the New York Academy of Science 15:141-148). The "Baldwin Effect", building in part on the principle of "organic selection" proposed by Baldwin in "Mental Development" did only receive its name from George Gaylord Simpson in 1953. (in: Evolution 7:110-117) (see: David J. Depew in "Evolution and Learning" M.I.T. 2003) Baldwin complemented his psychological work with philosophy, in particular epistemology his contribution to which he presented in

7848-893: The institution of slavery and created international treaties, such as the 1926 Slavery Convention , to eradicate the institution worldwide. After centuries of struggle, slavery was eventually declared illegal at the global level in 1948 under the United Nations ' Universal Declaration of Human Rights . By this time, the Arab world was the only region in the world where chattel slavery was still legal. Slavery in Saudi Arabia , slavery in Yemen and slavery in Dubai were abolished in 1962–1963, with slavery in Oman following in 1970. Mauritania

7957-456: The integration of behavior favorable to development in the experimental framework appeared to be selected from an excess of movement in the trial of imitation. In further stages of development – the ones most critical to an understanding of the evolution of mind – this was graphically illustrated in the child's efforts to draw and learning to write. ( Mental Development in the Child and

8066-568: The king, her son Chlothar III , was only five years old. At some unknown date during her rule, she abolished the trade of slaves, although not slavery. Moreover, her (and contemporaneous Saint Eligius ') favorite charity was to buy and free slaves, especially children. Slavery started to dwindle and would be superseded by serfdom . In 1315, Louis X , king of France, published a decree proclaiming that "France signifies freedom" and that any slave setting foot on French soil should be freed. This prompted subsequent governments to circumscribe slavery in

8175-472: The late 19th century, this effect has been independently proposed several times, and today it is generally recognized as part of the modern synthesis . The effect, then unnamed, was put forward in 1896 in a paper "A New Factor in Evolution" by the American psychologist James Mark Baldwin , with a second paper in 1897. The paper proposed a mechanism for specific selection for general learning ability. As

8284-548: The legality of slavery. They set the precedent of legal procedure in British courts that would later lead to successful outcomes for the plaintiffs. In these cases, deaths of the plaintiff and defendant, respectively, brought an end before court decisions. African slaves were not bought or sold in London but were brought by masters from other areas. Together with people from other nations, especially non-Christian, Africans were considered foreigners, not able to be English subjects. At

8393-527: The mechanism of transmission of hereditary information and at least two other biologists put forward very similar ideas in 1896. In 1901, Maurice Maeterlinck referred to behavioural adaptations to prevailing climates in different species of bees as "what had merely been an idea, therefore, and opposed to instinct, has thus by slow degrees become an instinctive habit". The Baldwin effect theory subsequently became more controversial, with scholars divided between "Baldwin boosters" and "Baldwin skeptics". The theory

8502-541: The natives. Las Casas for 20 years worked to get African slaves imported to replace natives; African slavery was everywhere and no one talked of ridding the New World of it, though France had abolished slavery in France itself and there was talk in other countries about doing the same. However, Las Casas had a late change of heart, and became an advocate for the Africans in the colonies. His book, A Short Account of

8611-536: The new experimental psychology of Ernst Heinrich Weber , Fechner and Wundt . He also completed his master's degree from Princeton. In 1889, he completed his doctoral degree, also from Princeton. In 1890 he went to the University of Toronto as the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics. His creation of a laboratory of experimental psychology at Toronto (which he claimed was the first in the British Empire ) coincided with

8720-481: The originally learned behaviors, if adaptive, into more in-born, instinctive ones. Though this process appears similar to Lamarckism , that view proposes that living things inherited their parents' acquired characteristics. The Baldwin effect only posits that learning ability, which is genetically based, is another variable in / contributor to environmental adaptation. First proposed during the Eclipse of Darwinism in

8829-449: The origins of psychology from Immanuel Kant through Johann Friedrich Herbart , Gustav Theodor Fechner , Hermann Lotze to Wundt . In 1887, while working as a professor of philosophy at Lake Forest College , he married Helen Hayes Green, the daughter of the president of the seminary, William Henry Green . At Lake Forest, he published the first part of his Handbook of Psychology (Senses and Intellect) in which he directed attention to

8938-445: The possession of incest-favoring instincts. After a few generations without this natural selection pressure, unless such genetic material were profoundly fixed, it would tend to diversify and lose its function. Humans would no longer be innately averse to incest, but would rely on their capacity to internalize such rules from cultural practices. The opposite case can also be true: cultural practice might selectively breed humans to meet

9047-648: The presidency of Clark University in 1888). In Baltimore Baldwin started to work on Thoughts and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or Genetic Logic (1906), a densely integrative rendering of his ideas culminating in Genetic Theory of Reality: Being the Outcome of Genetic Logic as Issuing in the Aesthetic Theory of Reality called Pancalism (1915). This book introduced

9156-803: The presidential address to the American Psychological Association in 1897. By then the work on the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (1902) had been announced and a period of intense philosophical correspondence ensued with the contributors to the project: William James , John Dewey , Charles Sanders Peirce , Josiah Royce , George Edward Moore , Bernard Bosanquet , James McKeen Cattell , Edward B. Titchener , Hugo Münsterberg , Christine Ladd-Franklin , Adolf Meyer , George Stout , Franklin Henry Giddings , Edward Bagnall Poulton and others. In 1897, Baldwin

9265-657: The principalities emancipated all of the 250,000 enslaved Roma people. Bartolomé de las Casas was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican priest, the first resident Bishop of Chiapas (Central America, today Mexico). As a settler in the New World he witnessed and opposed the poor treatment and virtual slavery of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists, under the encomienda system. He advocated before King Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor on behalf of rights for

9374-530: The rediscovery of the significance of James Mark Baldwin in the history of ideas . Apart from articles in the Psychological Review , Baldwin wrote: He also largely contributed to the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (1901–1905), of which he was editor in-chief. A-O from Vols. I & II, transcribing Abolitionist Abolitionism , or the abolitionist movement ,

9483-415: The relationship of Ego and Alter were developed by Pierre Janet ; while his stress on how "My sense of self grows by imitation of you...an imitative creation" contributed to the mirror stage of Jacques Lacan . His contributions to the young discipline's early journals and institutions were highly significant as well. Baldwin was a co-founder (with James McKeen Cattell ) of Psychological Review (which

9592-707: The same time the new republics of mainland Spanish America became committed to the gradual abolition of slavery. During the Spanish American wars for independence (1810–1826), slavery was abolished in most of Latin America, though it continued until 1873 in Puerto Rico , 1886 in Cuba, and 1888 in Brazil (where it was abolished by the Lei Áurea , the "Golden Law"). Chile declared freedom of wombs in 1811, followed by

9701-580: The start of 1803. However, Denmark would not abolish slavery in the Danish West Indies until 1848. Haiti (then Saint-Domingue) formally declared independence from France in 1804 and became the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to permanently eliminate slavery in the modern era, following the 1804 Haitian revolution . The northern states in the U.S. all abolished slavery by 1804. The United Kingdom (then including Ireland) and

9810-444: The time, England had no naturalization procedure. The African slaves' legal status was unclear until 1772 and Somersett's Case , when the fugitive slave James Somersett forced a decision by the courts. Somersett had escaped, and his master, Charles Steuart, had him captured and imprisoned on board a ship, intending to ship him to Jamaica to be resold into slavery. While in London, Somersett had been baptized ; three godparents issued

9919-429: The trade. One aspect of abolitionism during this period was the effective use of images such as the famous Josiah Wedgwood " Am I Not A Man and a Brother? " anti-slavery medallion of 1787. Clarkson described the medallion as "promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom". The 1792 Slave Trade Bill passed the House of Commons mangled and mutilated by the modifications and amendments of Pitt , it lay for years, in

10028-501: The union (see Missouri compromise ). In 1787, the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was formed in London. Revolutionary France abolished slavery throughout its empire through the Law of 4 February 1794 , but Napoleon restored it in 1802 as part of a program to ensure sovereignty over its colonies. On March 16, 1792, Denmark became the first country to issue a decree to abolish their transatlantic slave trade from

10137-601: Was a former French colony, Haiti , as a result of the Revolution of 1791–1804 . The British abolitionist movement began in the late 18th century, and the 1772 Somersett case established that slavery did not exist in English law. In 1807, the slave trade was made illegal throughout the British Empire, though existing slaves in British colonies were not liberated until the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 . In

10246-619: Was abolished in the entire British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. In his book The Struggle For Equality , historian James M. McPherson defines an abolitionist "as one who before the Civil War had agitated for the immediate, unconditional, and total abolition of slavery in the United States". He does not include antislavery activists such as Abraham Lincoln or the Republican Party, which called for

10355-613: Was also elected to the American Philosophical Society . In 1899 Baldwin went to Oxford to supervise the completion of the Dictionary ... (1902). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science at Oxford University . (In the light of the foregoing, the deafening silence with which J. M. Baldwin was later treated in Oxford publications on the mind may well come to be regarded as one of the significant omissions in

10464-402: Was also high, and people are less productive when not allowed to choose the type of work they prefer, are illiterate, and are forced to live and work in miserable and unhealthy conditions. The free labour markets and international free trade that Smith preferred would also result in different prices and allocations that Smith believed would be more efficient and productive for consumers. Prior to

10573-701: Was among the first to articulate the Enlightenment case against slavery, banning it in the Province of Georgia on humanitarian grounds, and arguing against it in Parliament. Soon after Oglethorpe's death in 1785, Sharp and More united with William Wilberforce and others in forming the Clapham Sect . The Somersett case in 1772, in which a fugitive slave was freed with the judgement that slavery did not exist under English common law , helped launch

10682-682: Was arrested in a raid on a "colored" brothel (1908), a scandal that put an end to his American career. Forced to leave Johns Hopkins, he looked for residence in Paris. He was to reside in France till his death in 1934. His first years (1908–1912) in France were interrupted by long stays in Mexico where he advised on university matters and lectured at the School of Higher Studies at the National University in Mexico City . His Darwin and

10791-463: Was excluded from the thirteen colonies, existed as an independent state from 1777 to 1791. Vermont abolished adult slavery in 1777. In other states, such as Virginia, similar declarations of rights were interpreted by the courts as not applicable to Africans and African Americans. During the following decades, the abolitionist movement grew in northern states, and Congress heavily regulated the expansion of Slave or Free States in new territories admitted to

10900-468: Was first called the "Baldwin effect" by George Gaylord Simpson in 1953. Simpson "admitted that the idea was theoretically consistent, that is, not inconsistent with the modern synthesis ", but he doubted that the phenomenon occurred very often, or if so, could be proven to occur. In his discussion of the reception of the Baldwin-effect theory Simpson points out that the theory appears to provide

11009-556: Was founded explicitly to compete with G. Stanley Hall 's American Journal of Psychology ), Psychological Monographs and Psychological Index . He was also the founding editor of Psychological Bulletin . In 1892 he was vice-president of the International Congress of Psychology held in London , and in 1897–1898 president of the American Psychological Association ; he received a gold medal from

11118-540: Was intended to end what the act referred to as "a state of slavery and bondage", but that was ineffective, necessitating the 1799 act. In the 1776 book The Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith argued for the abolition of slavery on economic grounds. Smith pointed out that slavery incurred security, housing, and food costs that the use of free labour would not, and opined that free workers would be more productive because they would have personal economic incentives to work harder. The death rate (and thus repurchase cost) of slaves

11227-510: Was often ignored in French colonial society and the mulattoes became an intermediate caste between whites and blacks, while in the British colonies mulattoes and blacks were considered equal and discriminated against equally. During the Age of Enlightenment , many philosophers wrote pamphlets against slavery and its moral and economical justifications, including Montesquieu in The Spirit of

11336-435: Was prominent among early experimental psychologists and was voted by his peers as the fifth most important psychologist in America in a 1903 survey conducted by James McKeen Cattell , but it was his contributions to developmental psychology that were the most important. His stepwise theory of cognitive development was a major influence on the later, and much more widely known, developmental theory of Jean Piaget . His ideas on

11445-560: Was repressed, and slavery was re-established. The news of the Law of 4 February 1794 that abolished slavery in France and its colonies and the revolution led by Colonel Delgrès sparked another wave of rebellion in Saint-Domingue. From 1802 Napoleon sent more than 20,000 troops to the island, two-thirds died, mostly from yellow fever. Seeing the failure of the Saint-Domingue expedition , in 1803 Napoleon decided to sell

11554-655: Was sent north to receive his secondary education in New Jersey. As a result, he chose to attend the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University ). Baldwin started in theology under the tutelage of the college's president, James McCosh , but soon switched to philosophy, completing a B.A. in 1884. He was awarded the Green Fellowship in Mental Science (named after his future father-in-law, the head of

11663-555: Was the beginning of what became the Haitian Revolution led by formerly enslaved people like Georges Biassou , Toussaint L'Ouverture , and Jean-Jacques Dessalines . The rebellion swept through the north of the colony, and with it came freedom to thousands of enslaved blacks, but also violence and death. In 1793, French Civil Commissioners in St. Domingue and abolitionists, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel , issued

11772-567: Was the key speaker at the World Anti-Slavery Convention it held in London in 1840. In the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia , the government held slavery of the Roma (often referred to as Gypsies) as legal at the beginning of the 19th century. The progressive pro-European and anti-Ottoman movement, which gradually gained power in the two principalities, also worked to abolish that slavery. Between 1843 and 1855,

11881-492: Was the last country to officially abolish slavery, with a presidential decree in 1981. Today, child and adult slavery and forced labour are illegal in almost all countries, as well as being against international law , but human trafficking for labour and for sexual bondage continues to affect tens of millions of adults and children. Balthild of Chelles , herself a former slave, queen consort of Neustria and Burgundy by marriage to Clovis II , became regent in 657 since

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