Slavery and the Culture of Taste

by Simon Gikandi

Book Overview

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069116097X
• ISBN13: 9780691160979
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"