Atlantic Bodies: Health, Race, and the Environment in the British Greater Caribbean

This dissertation examines the relationship between race and bodily health in the British West Indies and the Carolina/Georgia Lowcountry from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. In the eighteenth century, planters often justified African slavery by claiming that Africans, unl...

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Main Author: Johnston, Katherine Margaret
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D83N23CF