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
Table of Contents:
  • Abolitionist body politics
  • Liberty of the body
  • Birthrights and vindications
  • One blood
  • Medical materialism, migration, and national belonging
  • In search of free labor
  • Maternal blood and tears
  • Blood of the fathers
  • Liberating bodies.

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