
Episode 88: Andrew S. Curran
The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly
African Blackness in the 17 Sixties and Seventies
In the 17 forties, in ve n fifties, the idea of degeneration was actually quite lucy goosey. And thise, what happens when the anti slavery movement really starts taking off in the 17 seventies, is that people who needed to justify the trade grab hold of all this pseudo science and trot it out. So you not only have the naturalists who are working and publishing for group of people that you have pro slavery thinkers,. People wreating for travellogues, who are all talking about the reticular membrane and all these bizarre physiological things, suppose they exist in africans and don't. This becomes one of the justifications of the
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