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Article Title

Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

Abstract

By examining guidebooks, medical journals, physicians’ advertisements, and various medical and military institutional records, Hogarth analyzes the ways that ideas about blackness were exchanged among planters and physicians in the “geographic and cultural border” between the Anglophone Caribbean and the antebellum South