Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean
(Part of the Disability Histories Series)
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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 such only fit for servitude. Joining blackness to disability transformed English ideas about defective bodies and minds. It also influenced understandings of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:025208506X
ISBN13:9780252085062
Release Date:March 2020
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:244 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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