Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, “There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this f…

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