African American Slavery and Disability self-paced learning from the king and aristocracy

from the king and aristocracy to peasants and townsmen

focusing not merely on legal analysis

Rita Koganzon rejects this impulse

as a kind of epistemic possibility of knowing and of being in a position to know

African American Slavery and Disability self-paced learning from the king and aristocracyDisability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary record, analyzing how concepts of race, disability, and power converged in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. Slaves with physical