Anatomy of blackness, science and slavery in an age of enlightenment, Andrew S. Curran
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Anatomy of blackness, science and slavery in an age of enlightenment, Andrew S. Curran
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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no index present
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non fiction
Main title
Anatomy of blackness
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bibliography
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Andrew S. Curran
Sub title
science and slavery in an age of enlightenment
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography, " 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: Black Africans and the enlightenment legacy
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