Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America by Sharon Block

Early American Studies

Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

Sharon Block

232 pages hardcover

2 editions

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In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers al...

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