Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
(Part of the Early American Studies Series)
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Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1512823279
ISBN13:9781512823271
Release Date:February 2023
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:456 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"
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