TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellis,Cristin
TI  - Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 
SN  - 9780823278442
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - History / African American & Black
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto Am I Not a Man and a Brother? to the Civil Rights-era declaration I AM a Man, antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of the humanness of black humanity. It has done so, however, during an era in which the very definition of the human has been called into question by the rising prestige of the biological sciences whose materialist account of human being erodes the grounds of human exceptionalism...Antislavery materialism allowed these authors to respond to scientific racism in its own empirical terms. At the same time, however, it also attenuated their faith in the liberal humanist principles that they champion elsewhere in their work
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/4287cffa-812f-4120-8dc8-d5b99b61a10c
ER  -