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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