Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth

Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

Rana A. Hogarth

290 pages • first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction history race science informative slow-paced
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In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about b...

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