Curran, Andrew S. <br/><br/>
The anatomy of blackness :  science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / 
Andrew S. Curran. 
 - 1 online resource (327 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421402307 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Blacks in literature.<br/>Blacks--Race identity.<br/>French literature--History.--18th century<br/>French literature--History.--19th century<br/>Travel writing--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--In literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ265  / .C87 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>840.9/352996