The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / Andrew S. Curran.

  • Curran, Andrew S.
Date:
2011
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Physical description

xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.

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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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781421401508
  • 1421401509