Between Fitness and Death : Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean /
"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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2020]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.