The anatomy of blackness [electronic resource] : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / Andrew S. Curran.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 310 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421402307
- 1421402300
- 840.9/352996 22
- PQ265 .C87 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
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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