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Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (Disability Histories) by Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (Disability Histories) about?

This is the first book-length study of Caribbean slavery to make disability its primary focus. The book sets out to answer the following questions: How does colonialism—specifically slavery—challenge the way we think about histories of disability, race, and labor? In what ways might slavery and the expansion of the slave trade have transformed English understandings of supposedly defective bodies and minds in the metropole and colonies? How did disability, disfigurement, and deformity among the enslaved—whether transient, permanent, natural, or inflicted—influence English understandings of race and ability in the colonial period? How did slavery-induced disability shape the embodied reality of enslavement in the British Caribbean? The analysis of disability in the context of Atlantic world slavery is threefold. First, it explores representations of disability as they connect with enslavement and the development of an English antiblack racism from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Second, it moves between the realms of representation and reality in order to examine the embodied, physical, emotional, and psychological impairments produced by the institution of slavery and endu

Who reads Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (Disability Histories)?

Author

Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252043192

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science