Between Fitness and Death

Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy is an associate professor at the University of New Brunswick.

"Between Fitness and Death is essential reading for scholars of health, racialization, and law in the world of Atlantic slavery, and it also gestures toward important future directions for scholars of slavery and race, more generally." --Black Perspectives"Bringing together a wide array of sources with carefully crafted interpretive insight, Between Fitness and Death is a tremendous accomplishment. . . . Hunt-Kennedy provides a theoretically innovative framework for future scholarship on how enslaved people in the British Caribbean and beyond perceived of and operated in relation to the disabling power of slavery. Between Fitness and Death deserves wide-readership." --Middle Ground Journal "Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy's Between Fitness and Death is an excellent introduction to disability studies for scholars rooted in histories of slavery and of the Caribbean." --H-Slavery"Between Fitness and Death is an engaging theoretical assessment of the ideology of racial difference in American slavery. It is a helpful contribution to the growing battery of factors that historians must consider when assessing prejudice during the period. . . . Between Fitness and Death<.i> adds fresh insight into the origins of anti-Black racism, as well as a helpful guide to its enduring legacy." --Journal of African American History

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Imagining Africa, Inheriting Monstrosity: Gender, Blackness, and Capitalism in the Early Atlantic2. Between Human and Animal: The Disabling Power of Slave Law3. Unfree Labor and Industrial Capital: Fitness, Disability, and Worth4. Incorrigible Runaways: Disability and the Bodies of Fugitive Slaves5. Bondsman or Rebel: Disability Rhetoric and the Challenge of Revolutionary EmancipationConclusionNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover