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

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.

Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography," 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.