This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. Using military-medical literature about the West India Regiments, Lockley shows how Britain's black soldiers were central to intellectual debates around ideas of blackness and whiteness in the Atlantic world.
This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. Using military-medical literature about the West India Regiments, Lockley shows how Britain's black soldiers were central to intellectual debates around ideas of blackness and whiteness in the Atlantic world.
Tim Lockley is Professor of North American History at the University of Warwick and the author of Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750¿1860 (2001), Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South (2007) and Maroon Communities in South Carolina (2009).
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Introduction 1. Medical necessity and the founding of the West India Regiments 2. The ideal soldier 3. The use and abuse of the black soldier 4. Statistics and the reinterpretation of black bodies 5. Dehumanising the black soldier 6. Damage done: the Asante campaigns Conclusion.
Introduction 1. Medical necessity and the founding of the West India Regiments 2. The ideal soldier 3. The use and abuse of the black soldier 4. Statistics and the reinterpretation of black bodies 5. Dehumanising the black soldier 6. Damage done: the Asante campaigns Conclusion.
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