African American slavery and disability: bodies, property and power in the antebellum South, 1800-1860
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Main Author: Boster, Dea H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] Routledge 2013
Series:Studies in African American history and culture
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Online Access:TUM01
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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 volume 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. Slaves with physical and mental impairments often faced unique limitations and conditions in their diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation as property
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 183 p.)
ISBN:1136275320
9780415537247
9781136275326

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