Between fitness and death, disability and slavery in the Caribbean, Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
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Label
Between fitness and death, disability and slavery in the Caribbean, Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-222) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Between fitness and death
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1122719713
Responsibility statement
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Series statement
Disability histories
Sub title
disability and slavery in the Caribbean
Summary
"Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race, suspended between human and animal, and as such only fit for servitude. Joining blackness to disability transformed English ideas about defective bodies and minds. It also influenced understandings of race and ability even as it shaped the embodied reality of people enslaved in the British Caribbean. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy provides a three-pronged analysis of disability in the context of Atlantic slavery. First, she examines the connections of enslavement and representations of disability and the parallel development of English anti-black racism. From there, she moves from realms of representation to reality in order to illuminate the physical, emotional, and psychological impairments inflicted by slavery and endured by the enslaved. Finally, she looks at slave law as a system of enforced disablement. Audacious and powerful, Between Fitness and Death is a groundbreaking journey into the entwined histories of racism and ableism"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Imagining Africa, inheriting monstrosity : gender, blackness, and capitalism in the early Atlantic World -- Between human and animal : the disabling power of slave law -- Unfree labor and industrial capital : fitness, disability, and worth -- Incorrigible runaways : disability and the bodies of fugitive slaves -- Bondsman or rebel : disability rhetoric and the challenge of revolutionary emancipation
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Genre
Subject
- Enslaved persons -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
- West Indies + British West Indies
- Race relations
- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
- Racism -- West Indies, British -- History
- People with disabilities + Legal status, laws, etc -- West Indies, British -- History
- People with disabilities + Legal status, laws, etc
- History
- Black people -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
- British colonies
- Slavery + Law and legislation -- West Indies, British -- History
- Social conditions
- People with disabilities + Social conditions
- People with disabilities -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
- Racism
- America
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration
- Colonies + Administration
- Slaves + Social conditions
- Slavery + Law and legislation
- West Indies, British -- Race relations
- Blacks + Social conditions
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- Enslaved persons -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
- West Indies + British West Indies
- Race relations
- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
- Racism -- West Indies, British -- History
- People with disabilities + Legal status, laws, etc -- West Indies, British -- History
- People with disabilities + Legal status, laws, etc
- History
- Black people -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
- British colonies
- Slavery + Law and legislation -- West Indies, British -- History
- Social conditions
- People with disabilities + Social conditions
- People with disabilities -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions
- Racism
- America
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration
- Colonies + Administration
- Slaves + Social conditions
- Slavery + Law and legislation
- West Indies, British -- Race relations
- Blacks + Social conditions
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