Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean

by Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025208506X
• ISBN13: 9780252085062
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"