Dea Boster

African American Slavery and Disability (eBook, ePUB)

Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This book uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary record, analyzing how concepts of race, disability, and power converged in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136275319
• Artikelnr.: 38453641

Autorenporträt

Dea Boster received her Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan and is an Instructor for the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: "Here Are the Marks Yet" Part 1: Bodies 2. The Dual Stigma
of Race and Disability in Antebellum America 3. Sources of "Unsoundness" in
African American Slaves Part 2: Property 4. Labor and Expectation in the
Lives of Slaves with Disabilities 5. Disability, Value, and the Language of
Slave Sales Part 3: Power 6. Disability, Mastery and Power Dynamics in the
Antebellum South 7. Epilogue and Conclusion: Seeing "Moses"