TY - BOOK AU - Curran,Andrew S. TI - The anatomy of blackness: science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment SN - 9781421402307 (ebook) AV - PQ265 .C87 2011eb U1 - 840.9/352996 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Blacks in literature KW - Blacks KW - Race identity KW - French literature KW - 18th century KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Travel writing KW - History and criticism KW - Africa KW - In literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and index; 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10790451 ER -