Colonial Complexions: Race And Bodies In Eighteenth-Century America (Early American Studies) - 9780812250060

How did descriptions of individuals' appearance reinforce emergent categories of race? In Colonial Complexions, more than 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and servants reveal how colonists transformed seemingly observable characteristics into racist reality.

• | Author: Sharon Block
• | Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0812250060
• | ISBN-13: 9780812250060