Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith's proposal that skin color should be viewed as a product of climate and therefore not correlated to inner virtues (e.g.,intelligence,character,personality)suggests that he felt:
A) people were all the same beneath their skin.
B) skin color correlates with moral virtues.
C) weather,and thus human difference,was controlled by God.
D) race must be based on observable qualities such as skin color,not inner virtues.

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Smith's proposal indicates that he believed that skin color was not an indicator of inner virtues. Therefore, he likely believed that people were all the same beneath their skin, regardless of their skin color.

Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith's Proposal That Skin Color Should Be