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Author:

Kettler, Andrew, author.

Title:

The smell of slavery : olfactory racism and the Atlantic world / Andrew Kettler, University of California, Los Angeles.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xxvii, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Slavery--Social aspects--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Smell--History.--History.
Odor--History.--History.
Blacks--Atlantic Ocean Region--Social conditions.
Atlantic Ocean Region--History.--History.
Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Racism--History.
Blacks--Social conditions.
Race relations.
Racism.
Slave trade.
Slavery--Social aspects.
Smell--Social aspects.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface : Making scents of the Middle Passage -- Introduction : Pecunia non olet -- The primal scene : ethnographic wonder and aromatic discourse -- Triangle trading on the pungency of race -- Ephemeral Africa : essentialized odors and the slave ship -- "The sweet smell of vengeance" : olofactory resistance in the Atlantic world -- Conclusion : Race, nose, truth.

ISBN:

1108490735
9781108490733

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1140379941

LCCN:

2019057477

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)