The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / Andrew S. Curran.

The culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America / edited by Shirley Samuels.

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The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / Andrew S. Curran.

The culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America / edited by Shirley Samuels.