The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / Andrew S. Curran.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421402307 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 840.9/352996 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ265 .C87 2011eb
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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