Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kathleen M. BrownSeries:Early American StudiesTheme:Chronological Period/19th Century, Ethnic Orientation/African American, Topical/Black HistoryPublish date:2023-02-01Pages:456
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9781512823271ISBN-10:1512823279UPC:9781512823271Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, African American & Black, SlaveryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.817Product ID:SC4ATYE1RW
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-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies...
Series: Early American Studies
Theme: Chronological Period/19th Century, Ethnic Orientation/African American, Topical/Black History
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9781512823271ISBN-10:1512823279UPC:9781512823271Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, African American & Black, SlaveryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.817Product ID:SC4ATYE1RW
Kathleen M. Brown is David Boies Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of the prize-winning books Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America and Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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