Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean Hunt-Kennedy Stefanie
Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean Hunt-Kennedy Stefanie Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and…
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Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean Hunt-Kennedy Stefanie
Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. Joining blackness to disability transformed English ideas about defective bodies and minds. 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.
First, she examines the connections of enslavement and representations of disability and the parallel development of English anti-black racism. 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. From there, she moves from realms of representation to reality in order to illuminate the
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The In Between