The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment

The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues,…