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Between Fitness and Death : Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean by Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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- Author
- Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
- Publisher
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252052071
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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