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Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, yesterday accepted full responsibility for so-called anti-Negro sentiments in his book, the second volume of "The Growth of the American Republic." But he branded charges that the book is anti-Negro as "frivolous," and plans no changes in the text, which has been on the market for over 20 years...
Samuel Eliot Morison--Mr. Harvard...
...last fall, to lodge a protest. A textbook used in the basic U.S. history course, they said, was offensive to their race. The book: Volume I of The Growth of the American Republic, by two of the nation's top historians, Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison and Columbia's Henry Steele Commager...
Educators regard the Morison-Commager book, now used in more than 500 schools and colleges, as "one of the finest in its field. But Queens pondered the list of objections raised by its Negro students. One passage which struck the objectors as an insufferably lighthearted approach to human slavery...
...Authors Morison and Commager were planning no changes. They felt that the passages were sound history, and that the phraseology properly reflected the spirit of the period they were describing. The objection to the word "black," said Morison was "frivolous." As for "Sambo," "it's quite a shock to find that that's offensive. It's been my own nickname in the family for years...