Description: Between Fitness and Death : Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean, Paperback by Hunt-kennedy, Stefanie, ISBN 025208506X, ISBN-13 9780252085062, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 race and ability even as it shaped the embodied reality of people enslaved in the British Caribbean. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy provides a three-pronged analysis of disability in the context of Atlantic slavery. First, she examines the connections of enslavement and representations of disability and the parallel development of English anti-black racism. From there, she moves from realms of representation to reality in order to illuminate the physical, emotional, and psychological impairments inflicted by slavery and endured by the enslaved. Finally, she looks at slave law as a system of enforced disablement. Audacious and powerful, Between Fitness and Death is a groundbreaking journey into the entwined histories of racism and ableism"--
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Book Title: Between Fitness and Death : Disability and Slavery in the Caribbe
Number of Pages: 244 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Between Fitness and Death : Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Slavery, People with Disabilities, Social History, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Series: Disability Histories Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
