Undoing Slavery : : Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition / / Kathleen M. Brown.

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• VerfasserIn: Brown, Kathleen M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Idioma: English
• Series: Early American Studies
• Descrición Física: 1 online resource (456 p.)

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 sc...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction Abolitionist Body Politics
• Chapter 1 Liberty of the Body
• Chapter 2 Birthrights and Vindications
• Chapter 3 One Blood
• Chapter 4 Medical Materialism, Migration, and National Belonging
• Chapter 5 In Search of Free Labor
• Chapter 6 Maternal Blood and Tears
• Chapter 7 Blood of the Fathers
• Chapter 8 Liberating Bodies
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments