The Mark of Slavery : Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America / Jenifer L. Barclay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barclay, Jenifer L., author.

Series:

Disability histories.

Illinois scholarship online.

Disability histories

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Abuse of--United States.

Enslaved persons.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Summary:

Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the ten percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy.

Contents:

Disability, Embodiment, and Slavery in the Old South

Reimagined Communities: Disability and the Making of Slave Families, Communities, and Culture

A Dose of Law: The Dialogics of Race and Disability in Southern Slave Law and Medicine

"Cannibals All!" The Politics of Slavery, Ableism, and White Supremacy

One Hell of a Metaphor: Disability and Race on the Antebellum Stage.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 11, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252043727

0252043723

OCLC:

1244618610