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The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
The Anatomy of Blackness Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
Author: Andrew S. Curran
This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781421401508
ISBN-10: 1421401509
Publication Date: 9/8/2011
Pages: 328
Edition: 1
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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