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

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Autore principale:	Curran, Andrew S.
Natura:	Elettronico eBook
Lingua:	inglese
Pubblicazione:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Soggetti:	Blacks in literature. Blacks > Race identity. French literature > 18th century > History. French literature > 19th century > History. Travel writing > History and criticism. Africa > In literature. Electronic books.
Accesso online:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Sommario:

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.