Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
by
Andrew S. Curran
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
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...