The Anatomy of Blackness : Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Curran, Andrew S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Blacks in literature.
Travel writing > History and criticism.
Blacks > Race identity.
French literature > 19th century > History.
French literature > 18th century > History.
Africa > In literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture
  • Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750
  • Sameness and science, 1730-1750
  • The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography," 1750-1755
  • The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802
  • Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.

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