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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (Early American Studies)

Kathleen M. Brown

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Publish Date: March 31, 2026

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN:

9781512829723

Pages:

456

Language:

English

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About the Author

Kathleen M. Brown is David Boies Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of the prize-winning books Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America and Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia.

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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (Early American Studies)

About the Author

Other Books in Series

Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England (Early American Studies)

The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution (Early American Studies)

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Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England (Early American Studies)

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John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman (Early American Studies)

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