The mark of slavery : disability, race, and gender in antebellum America / Jenifer L. Barclay.
The mark of slavery : disability, race, and gender in antebellum America / Jenifer L. Barclay.
The mark of slavery : disability, race, and gender in antebellum America / Jenifer L. Barclay.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
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G 2021/0373
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Disability, Embodiment, and Slavery in the Old South -- Reimagined Communities: Disability and the Making of Slave Families, Communities, and Culture -- A Dose of Law: The Dialogics of Race and Disability in Southern Slave Law and Medicine -- "Cannibals All!" The Politics of Slavery, Ableism, and Wh...
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
[2021]
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Summary
"Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she...
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Full title
The mark of slavery : disability, race, and gender in antebellum America / Jenifer L. Barclay.
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Disability, race, and gender in antebellum America
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Disability Histories
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/0373
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74VKaOBkm0rA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaOBkm0rA
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ISBN
0252043723
9780252043727
DDC
306.362097309034
MMS ID
991024381110502626
