1st Edition
African American Slavery and Disability Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860
By Dea Boster
Copyright 2013
198 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction: "Here Are the Marks Yet" Part 1: Bodies 2. The Dual Stigma of Race and Disability in Antebellum America 3. Sources of "Unsoundness" in African American Slaves Part 2: Property 4. Labor and Expectation in the Lives of Slaves with Disabilities 5. Disability, Value, and the Language of Slave Sales Part 3: Power 6. Disability, Mastery and Power Dynamics in the Antebellum South 7. Epilogue and Conclusion: Seeing "Moses"
Biography
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.
"African American Slavery and Disability...makes a significant historiographical contribution by probing questions of race and slavery through the analytical lens of disability." -Jeff Forret, Lamar University in The Journal of Southern History
