ISBN
9781469632872
Price
$27.95
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Abstract
Using compelling evidence collected from archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, South Carolina, and Philadelphia, Rana Hogarth argues persuasively that physicians working among enslaved societies in the Atlantic world during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries played a decisive role in the racialization of physiological and physical differences among humans.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.20.3.24
Recommended Citation
Cornelius, Alexandra
(2018)
"Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 20
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Iss.
3
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.20.3.24
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol20/iss3/24
