Undoing Slavery Rachel Dempsey Torn between two rival conceptions

Torn between two rival conceptions of eloquence

For Lucy Lurie will be no man’s lacuna

Historically Black offers a nuanced and sensitive portrait of a federally recognized Historic District under the category “Ethnic Heritage—Black

a relic from a past

Undoing Slavery Rachel Dempsey Torn between two rival conceptionsUndoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth and nineteenth century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slaverys harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the