Between Fitness and Death : Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean /

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"Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race, suspended between human and animal, and as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Racism.
Race relations.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Colonies > Administration.
British colonies.
Black people > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Racisme > Antilles britanniques > Histoire.
Personnes handicapees > Antilles britanniques > Conditions sociales.
Esclaves > Antilles britanniques > Conditions sociales.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > West Indies, British > History.
Slavery > Law and legislation > West Indies, British > History.
Racism > West Indies, British > History.
People with disabilities > West Indies, British > Social conditions.
Black people > West Indies, British > Social conditions.
Slaves > West Indies, British > Social conditions.
West Indies > British West Indies.
America.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amerique > Administration.
West Indies, British > Social conditions.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Administration.
West Indies, British > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imagining Africa, inheriting monstrosity : gender, blackness, and capitalism in the early Atlantic world
  • Between human and animal : the disabling power of slave law
  • Unfree labor and industrial capital : fitness, disability, and worth
  • Incorrigible runaways : disability and the bodies of fugitive slaves
  • Bondsman or rebel : disability rhetoric and the challenge of revolutionary emancipation.

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