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Thomas explores Stanton’s little-examined philosophies on and proposals for women’s equality in marriage

Undoing Slavery Rachel Dempsey For Lucy Lurie will beUndoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth and nineteenth century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slaverys harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the