Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America by Sharon Block

Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

Early American Studies

Sharon Block

232 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers al...

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