Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Hardcover) Story Press Africa One sacrifice

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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Hardcover) Story Press Africa One sacrificeIn 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 blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World