The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America Volume 1

by Jenifer L. Barclay

Book Overview

Exploring the disability history of slavery

Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085701
• ISBN13: 9780252085703
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"