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

Author
Brown, Kathleen M., 1960-
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Physical Description
446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Language Note
Text in English.
Contents
Abolitionist body politics -- Liberty of the body -- Birthrights and vindications -- One blood -- Medical materialism, migration, and national belonging -- In search of free labor -- Maternal blood and tears -- Blood of the fathers -- Liberating bodies.
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"--
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ISBN
9781512823271 hardcover
1512823279 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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