Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860
by
Dea H. Boster
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from...