The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World

ISBN-13: 9780197514603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Katherine Johnston

Recenzje

The Nature of Slavery explodes the myth that slavery made sense because Black people can labor in humid heat better than white people can. Johnston traces this big lie of environmental inequity, showing how the private writings of planters in the eighteenth-century Caribbean contradicted their public insistence that people from Africa were by nature suited for tropical enslavement. This book shows how racial theorists built the ideological foundations for human enslavement through long-lasting, deeply pernicious ideas about health that reverberated through Black advocacy in the nineteenth century United States and continue to affect medical care in our present day.

O autorze

Katherine Johnston is an Assistant Professor of History at Montana State University.