Undoing slavery : bodies, race, and rights in the age of abolition / Kathleen M. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Kathleen M., 1960- author.

Series:

Early American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--North America--History.

Antislavery movements.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.

Human body--Political aspects--History.

Human body.

Human body--Moral and ethical aspects--History.

Physical Description:

456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Copy: Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

ISBN:

9781512823271

1512823279

OCLC:

1328002079