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Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement, picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840, Kay Dian Kriz

Label
Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement, picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840, Kay Dian Kriz
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
191243100
Responsibility statement
Kay Dian Kriz
Sub title
picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840
Table Of Contents
Introduction. Assessing the culture of refinement -- Curiosities, commodities and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's Voyage to ... Jamaica -- Marketing mulâtresses in Agostino Brunias's West Indian scenes -- The physiognomy and pathology of "black humor" : caricature and the West Indies on the eve of abolition -- Making a black folk : Belisario's Sketches of character -- Torrid zones and detoxified landscapes : picturing Jamaica, 1825-1840
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