Roxann Wheeler: 1 book
The Complexion of Race
Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons—but neither was the statement that followed:...
