Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World Blakley Christopher Michael
In the early modern British Atlantic world, the comparison of enslaved people to animals, particularly dogs, cattle, or horses, was a common device used by enslavers to dehumanize and otherwise reduce…
Specifikacia Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World Blakley Christopher Michael
In the early modern British Atlantic world, the comparison of enslaved people to animals, particularly dogs, cattle, or horses, was a common device used by enslavers to dehumanize and otherwise reduce the existence of the enslaved. Letters, memoirs, and philosophical treatises of the enslaved and formerly enslaved bear testament to the methods used to dehumanize them. In Empire of Brutality, Christopher Michael Blakley explores how material relationships between enslaved people and animals bolstered the intellectual dehumanization of the enslaved. By reconsidering dehumanization in the light of human-animal relations, Blakley offers new insights into the horrific institution later challenged by Black intellectuals in multiple ways.Using the correspondence of the Royal African Company, specimen catalogs and scientific papers of the Royal Society, plantation inventories and