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Author Boster, Dea H., author.

Title African American slavery and disability : bodies, property, and power in the antebellum South, 1800-1860 / by Dea H. Boster
Published New York : Routledge, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in African American History and Culture
Studies in African American history and culture.
Contents Introduction : "here are the marks yet" -- The dual stigma of race and disability in antebellum America -- Sources of "unsoundness" in African American slaves -- Labor and expectation in the lives of slaves with disabilities -- Disability, value, and the language of slave sales -- Disability, mastery, and power dynamics in the antebellum South -- Epilogue and conclusion : seeing "Moses."
Summary Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how ""able"" and ""disabled"" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary record, analyzing how concepts of race, disability, and power converged in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. Slaves with physical and mental impairments often faced unique limitations and conditions in their diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation as property
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-175) and index
Notes In English
Dea Boster received her Ph. D. in History at the University of Michigan and is an Instructor for the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College
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Subject Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Enslaved persons -- Wounds and injuries -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Disabilities -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Human body -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Health and race -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Enslavement -- history
Disabled Persons -- history
Enslaved Persons -- history
Black or African American -- history
History, 19th Century
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African-American Studies.
Health and race
Human body -- Social aspects
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene
Schwarze
Sklave
Behinderung
SUBJECT Southeastern United States
Subject Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012029116
ISBN 9781136275326
1136275320
9781299278875
1299278876
9780203110591
0203110595
9781136275319
1136275312
9781136275272
1136275274