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Exploring eighteenth-century travel narratives, natural history, works on anatomy, philosophical texts, and pro- and anti-slavery texts, this book reveals the relationship between scholarly ideas, commercial profit, and the violence inflicted on black Africans in the colonies.

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Andrew S. Curran est professeur de francais et le William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities a Wesleyan University (USA), ainsi que membre de l'Academie de medecine de New York. Il est l'auteur de Sublime disorder. Physical monstrosity in Diderot's Universe (Oxford, 2001), The Anatomy of Blackness. Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment (Baltimore, 2011) et de nombreux articles sur les Lumieres.

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