The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment /
Curran, Andrew S.
The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / Andrew S. Curran. - 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and index.
Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography, " 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.
9781421402307
Blacks in literature.
Blacks--Race identity.
French literature--History.--18th century
French literature--History.--19th century
Travel writing--History and criticism.
Africa--In literature.
Electronic books.
PQ265 / .C87 2011
840.9/352996
The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / Andrew S. Curran. - 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and index.
Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography, " 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.
9781421402307
Blacks in literature.
Blacks--Race identity.
French literature--History.--18th century
French literature--History.--19th century
Travel writing--History and criticism.
Africa--In literature.
Electronic books.
PQ265 / .C87 2011
840.9/352996