Preface: Who’s Black and Why?
Note on the Translations
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Introduction: The 1741 Contest on the “Degeneration” of Black Skin and Hair
1. Blackness through the Power of God
2. Blackness through the Soul of the Father
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Preface: Who’s Black and Why?
Note on the Translations
I
Introduction: The 1741 Contest on the “Degeneration” of Black Skin and Hair
1. Blackness through the Power of God
2. Blackness through the Soul of the Father
3. Blackness through the Maternal Imagination
4. Blackness as a Moral Defect
5. Blackness as a Result of the Torrid Zone
6. Blackness as a Result of Divine Providence
7. Blackness as a Result of Heat and Humidity
8. Blackness as a Reversible Accident
9. Blackness as a Result of Hot Air and Darkened Blood
10. Blackness as a Result of a Darkened Humor
11. Blackness as a Result of Blood Flow
12. Blackness as an Extension of Optical Theory
13. Blackness as a Result of an Original Sickness
14. Blackness Degenerated
15. Blackness Classified
16. Blackness Dissected
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Introduction: The 1772 Contest on “Preserving” Negroes
1. A Slave Ship Surgeon on the Crossing
2. A Parisian Humanitarian on the Slave Trade
3. Louis Alphonse, Bordeaux Apothecary, on the Crossing
Select Chronology of the Representation of Africans and Race
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
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0 有用 JasmineG 2023-10-10 22:35:48 美国
Main focus is origins and development of slavery and racism. It was interesting to see intellectuals grappling with human differences
0 有用 JasmineG 2023-10-10 22:35:48 美国
Main focus is origins and development of slavery and racism. It was interesting to see intellectuals grappling with human differences