The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment /

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Main Author: Curran, Andrew S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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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.