Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition

by Kathleen M. Brown

Book Overview

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 science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512823279
• ISBN13: 9781512823271
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"