Medicalizing blackness : making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840 /

"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 blackness that would endure in me...

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Author / Creator: Hogarth, Rana A. (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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