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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: mark of slavery
    sub title: disability, race, and gender in antebellum America
  name:
    name part: Barclay, Jenifer L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the ten percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore. Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail, 'The Mark of Slavery' is a powerful addition to the intertwined histories of disability, slavery and race.
  table of contents: Disability, Embodiment, and Slavery in the Old South -- Reimagined Communities: Disability and the Making of Slave Families, Communities, and Culture -- A Dose of Law: The Dialogics of Race and Disability in Southern Slave Law and Medicine -- "Cannibals All!" The Politics of Slavery, Ableism, and White Supremacy -- One Hell of a Metaphor: Disability and Race on the Antebellum Stage.
  note: Jenifer L. Barclay.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Slaves
    topic: Abuse of
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: African Americans with disabilities
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities
    topic: Abuse of
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Slaves
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: E443 .B245 2021
  classification: 306.3/62097309034
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Disability histories (Series)
  identifier: 9780252043727
  identifier: 0252043723
  identifier: 9780252085703
  identifier: 0252085701
  identifier: 2020038245
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200825
    record change date: 20210728155449.0
    record identifier: in00004448003