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Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

New Books in African American Studies

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The Development of White Perceptions of Bodily Health

In Western Europe and especially or specifically in this case in Britain, a lot of the thinking about bodily health has to do with place. This is kind of a part of a Hippocratic revival,. An idea of Hippocrates' ideas about heirs, waters and places. And so all of these ideas about very specific local places are really important to the way that Britons are thinking about health. It's an extraordinary story. Also the way white weakness is in the name of white supremacy. So in order to say we must have enslaved people, we have to say that we're incapable of this kind of hard work which is fascinating.

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