Review of Dea Boster's African American Slavery and Disability

Authors

  • Dustin Galer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v4i1.190

Abstract

In African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South, Dea Boster looks at how disability shaped the lived experience of slavery. Boster argues that while all slaves were objectified, disabled bondspeople were particularly oppressed by the social, economic, legal, and medical systems that perpetuated the institution of slavery in the nineteenth century American South.

Published

2015-01-23

How to Cite

Galer, D. (2015). Review of Dea Boster’s African American Slavery and Disability. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 4(1), 111–113. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v4i1.190

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Section

Reviews