Understanding the Relationship of Disability and Racism in Antebellum America
Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 4:50 p.m.Center for AccessibilityMartin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library
Understanding the Relationship of Disability and Racism in Antebellum America
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In this episode of Access This, Dr. Dea H. Boster and Deborah, from DCPL's Center for Accessibility, have a discussion about the often overlooked significance that disability played in the 400-year institution of slavery in the United States of America. Dr. Dea H. Boster is a historian, professor, and author of African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860.
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Suggested resources to learn more:
(Available through DC Public Library–Go Digital)
Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the CaribbeanBy Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
The Brave Escape of Ellen and William Craft by Donald LemkeThis graphic novel recounts the story of Ellen and William Craft's daring escape in 1848 from slavery in Georgia to freedom in Pennsylvania. The Crafts used disability and race passing in order to escape slavery.
The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft by Cathy MooreTells of the daring escape of a slave couple in 1848, with the woman, Ellen Craft, posing as a white man with disabilities, and her husband posing as the man's slave.
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard by Nora Ellen GroceIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
