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Undoing slavery : bodies, race, and rights in the age of abolition /
"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 centu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2023]
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| Edition: | 1st edition. |
| Series: | Early American studies
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"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"-- |
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456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781512823271 1512823279 |