Title Between fitness and death : disability and slavery in the Caribbean / Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series Disability histories Disability histories (Series) Contents Imagining Africa, inheriting monstrosity : gender, blackness, and capitalism in the early Atlantic world -- Between human and animal : the disabling power of slave law -- Unfree labor and industrial capital : fitness, disability, and worth -- Incorrigible runaways : disability and the bodies of fugitive slaves -- Bondsman or rebel : disability rhetoric and the challenge of revolutionary emancipation Summary "Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race, suspended between human and animal, and as such only fit for servitude. Joining blackness to disability transformed English ideas about defective bodies and minds. It also influenced understandings of race and ability even as it shaped the embodied reality of people enslaved in the British Caribbean. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy provides a three-pronged analysis of disability in the context of Atlantic slavery. First, she examines the connections of enslavement and representations of disability and the parallel development of English anti-black racism. From there, she moves from realms of representation to reality in order to illuminate the physical, emotional, and psychological impairments inflicted by slavery and endured by the enslaved. Finally, she looks at slave law as a system of enforced disablement. Audacious and powerful, Between Fitness and Death is a groundbreaking journey into the entwined histories of racism and ableism"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2020) Subject Enslaved persons -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions Black people -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions People with disabilities -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions Racism -- West Indies, British -- History Slavery -- Law and legislation -- West Indies, British -- History People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- West Indies, British -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Black people -- Social conditions British colonies Colonies -- Administration People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. People with disabilities -- Social conditions Race relations Racism Slavery -- Law and legislation Enslaved persons -- Social conditions Social conditions SUBJECT West Indies, British -- Race relations Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration West Indies, British -- Social conditions Subject America West Indies -- British West Indies Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019041550 ISBN 9780252052071 0252052072

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