Complexion Of Race

Categories Of Difference In Eighteenth-Century British Culture

by Roxann Wheeler
language: english
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS, June of 2000 ‧
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In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." This work asks how such categories would have been possible, when and how such statements came to seem illogical, and how our understanding of the eighteenth century has been distorted.

Complexion Of Race

Categories Of Difference In Eighteenth-Century British Culture

by Roxann Wheeler

Property Description
ISBN: 9780812217223
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Release Date: June of 2000
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 384
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > History > Story
EAN: 9780812217223