Undoing slavery

• Verfasst von: Brown, Kathleen M. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Undoing slavery
• Titelzusatz: bodies, race, and rights in the age of abolition
• Verf.angabe: Kathleen M. Brown
• Ausgabe: 1st edition
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: 446 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Early American studies
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis und Index
• ISBN: 978-1-5128-2327-1
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Brown, Kathleen M., 1960 - : Undoing slavery. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (446 Seiten)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Brown, Kathleen M., 1960 - : Undoing Slavery. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (456 p.)
• K10plus-PPN: 1807977897

Abstract

"Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth and nineteenth century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. This book explores those challenges"--