Slavery and the Culture of Taste

by Simon Gikandi

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It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:069116097X

ISBN13:9780691160979

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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