| Description |
xii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-320) and index. |
| Contents |
Stars and stripes -- Full steam ahead -- A natural history of Sierra Leone -- Trials in freedom -- The technological fix -- Antislavery in an age of science. |
| Summary |
"A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders. In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders' scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders. Looking beyond the science of race, The Science of Abolition shows how Black and white scientists and abolitionists drew upon a host of scientific disciplines-from chemistry, botany, and geology to medicine and technology-to portray slaveholders as the enemies of progress. From the 1770s through the 1860s, scientists and abolitionists in Britain and the United States argued that slavery stood in the way of scientific progress, blinded slaveholders to scientific evidence, and prevented enslavers from adopting labor-saving technologies that might eradicate enslaved labor. While historians increasingly highlight slavery's centrality to the modern world, fueling the rise of capitalism, science, and technology, few have asked where the myth of slavery's backwardness comes from in the first place. This book contends that by routinely portraying slaveholders as the enemies of science, abolitionists and scientists helped generate that myth" -- Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Antislavery movements.
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Slavery.
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Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Science -- Social aspects
(OCoLC)fst01108360
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Antislavery movements (OCoLC)fst00810800
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Science (OCoLC)fst01108176
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Slavery (OCoLC)fst01120426
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United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
How slaveholders became the enemies of progress |
| ISBN |
9780300236804 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0300236808 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780300258554 electronic book |
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0300258550 electronic book |
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