The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Curran, Andrew S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Blacks in literature. Travel writing > History and criticism. Blacks > Race identity. French literature > 19th century > History. French literature > 18th century > History. Africa > In literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture
Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750
Sameness and science, 1730-1750
The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography," 1750-1755
The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802
Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.