African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860 (Studies in African American History and Culture)

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Disability is ceaselessly mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how “ready” and “disabled” bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone in large part 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 america in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Slaves with physical and mental impairments ceaselessly faced unique limitations and conditions in their diagnosis, remedy, and evaluation as property. Slaves with disabilities proved a significant challenge to white authority figures, torn between the desire to categorize them as different or defective and the practical wish to incorporate their “disorderly” bodies into day-to-day life. Being physically “unfit” could now and again allow slaves to escape the limitations of bondage and oppression, and establish a measure of self-keep an eye on. Furthermore, ideas about and reactions to disability―appearing as social construction, legal definition, medical phenomenon, metaphor, or masquerade―highlighted deep struggles over bodies in bondage in antebellum The usa.

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