Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

by Britt Rusert

PDF, 2017

Publication

NYU Press (2017), 320 pages

ISBN

1479847666 / 9781479847662

Tags

history - African American, history of science

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Notes

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
1 The Banneker Age: Black Afterlives of Early National Science
2 Comparative Anatomies: Re-Visions of Racial Science
3 Experiments in Freedom: Fugitive Science in Transatlantic Performance
4 Delany’s Comet: Blake; or, The Huts of America and the Science Fictions of Slavery
5 Sarah’s Cabinet: Fugitive Science in and beyond the Parlor
Conclusion
NOTES
INDEX

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