The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment - Curran, Andrew S. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and index.
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Keywords: 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