Undoing slavery : bodies, race, and rights in the age of abolition /

"Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth and nineteenth centu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Kathleen M., 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Antislavery movements > North America > History.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History.
Human body > Political aspects > History.
Human body > Moral and ethical aspects > History.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
Corps humain > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Corps humain > Aspect moral > Histoire.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Antislavery movements
Human body > Moral and ethical aspects
Human body > Political aspects
Great Britain
North America
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth and nineteenth century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. This book explores those challenges"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1512823287
9781512823288

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