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Undoing slavery : bodies, race, and rights in the age of abolition /

"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 centu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Kathleen M., 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Antislavery movements > North America > History.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History.
Human body > Political aspects > History.
Human body > Moral and ethical aspects > History.
Antislavery movements.
Human body > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human body > Political aspects.
Great Britain.
North America.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Abolitionist body politics
  • Liberty of the body
  • Birthrights and vindications
  • One blood
  • Medical materialism, migration, and national belonging
  • In search of free labor
  • Maternal blood and tears
  • Blood of the fathers
  • Liberating bodies.