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The Science of Abolition : How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress /
A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders' scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using scienti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Stars and Stripes
- Two Full Steam Ahead
- Three A Natural History of Sierra Leone
- Four Trials in Freedom
- Five The Technological Fix
- Six Antislavery in an Age of Science
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index