Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49073-3 — the Smell of Slavery Andrew Kettler Index More Information

Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49073-3 — The Smell of Slavery Andrew Kettler Index More Information

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Abercromby, Ralph, 148 Anderson, Warwick, 124 Abolitionism xiii–xvii, 28, 33, 97, 103–105, Angola, 90, 98 111–112, 125–128, 133, 149, 172, Animal Sacriﬁce, 191–192, 198–204, See Slave Ship See Vodou Achebe, Chinua, 142–143 Anosmia, 73, 159, 200, 214, See Nose Arrow of God (1964), 143 Antebellum Era, xvii–xix, 118, 167–168, Things Fall Apart (1958), 142 198–200, See Civil War Adams, John, 104 Anti–Semitism, 50–53, 72–73, See Browne, Aesop, 42, 70, See Washing the Ethiopian Thomas Africanus, Leo, 24, 43, 53–57, 120 Ants, 141, See Ahoho Geographical Historie of Africa (1600), Apprenticeship, xvi, 114, See Emancipation 56–57 Archive, 21, 33–35, 127–128, 138–139, Taqiyya, 57, See Islam 145–146, 156, See Static Africa Age of Revolutions, 156, 160, 196, See Arkansas, 167–170 American Revolution Asante, 135–137 Ahoho, 141, See Ants Albanese, Denise, 20 Babilon, Daniela, 33–34 Allen, Grant, 205 Backscheider, Paula, 35 In All Shades (1886), 205, See Dogs Bacon, Francis, 60 Altar Rituals, 130, 138, 164–166, See New Atlantis (1627), 60 Funeral Rites Badiou, Alain, xii Alvares, Domingos, 163 Ball, Charles, 33, 153, 172, See Slave Alvares, Manuel, 55, 136 Narratives Ethiopia Minor and a Geographical Bandello, Matteo, 62 Account of the Province of Sierra Baptist, 136, See Protestant Leone, 55 Baraka, Amira, 218 American Philosophical Society, 108–110, Slave Ship (1967), 218 See Rush, Benjamin Barbados, xvi, 87–89, 97–100, 148, American Revolution, 96, 147, 153, See 178–179, 189, See Sugar Republicanism Revolution American West, 208 Barr, J.S., 105 Ananse, 140, See Spiders Barth, Henry, 132

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Bassa, 136, See Gold Coast British Empire, 79, 95, 135, 211, See Bathing, 3, 38–41, 85–88, 99, 120, Colonialism 125–132, 136, 164, 179, 212–214, British Guiana, 179 218, See Soap British Virgin Islands, xiv Beame, Reverend H., 181, See Obeah Brome, Richard, 67 Belize, 170 The English Moor (1659), 67 Bellamy, Edward, 198 Brown, Kathleen, 27–28 Bene Seeds, 170, See Sesame Browne, Patrick, 95 Beng, 145 Civil and Natural History of Jamaica Benin, 129, 141 (1756), 95 Berbice, 183 Browne, Thomas, 72 Bernier, Francois, 47 Psuedodoxia Epidemica (1646), 72, See Best, George, 86 Anti–Semitism Bibb, Henry, 167, See Slave Narratives Buffalo, 183 Bight of Biafra, 83 Buffon, Georges–Louis Leclerc, Comte de, Birds, 88, 177, 181, 190 47, 101, 105, See Monogenesis Black Magi, 52 Histoire Naturelle, 105 Blackface, 60, 203, See Mistrel Shows Burgess, Anthony, 72 Blood Nobility, 89, 102, See Monogenesis Spiritual Reﬁning (1664), 72 Blumenbach, Johann, 47, 91, 105, See Burton, Henry, 70 Monogenesis Truth’s Triumph over Trent (1629), 70, Boccalini, Trajano, 66 See Reformation New-Found Politicke (1626), 66 Burton, Richard, 116, 141–142 Body Politic, 5, 23, 42, 106, 117, 202, 213, Mission to the King of Dahome (1864), See Hobbes, Thomas 116 Bohun, Ralph, 78 Butler, Samuel, 198 Discourse Concerning the Origine and Byrd, Jodi, 65 Properties of Wind (1671), 78, See Torrid Zone Cadamosto, Alvise, 54, See Henry the Book of Jeremiah, 42, 51, 69, See Old Navigator Testament Calabash, 178–185, 189, See Medicine Man Bosman, Willem, 88, 99 Camp, Stephanie, 158 Botswana, 164 Rival Geographies, 128, 215 Bourdieu, Pierre, 93 Candomblé́, 164, 193, See Brazil Habitus, 93, 213, See Taste Cannady, Fanny, 171, See Slave Narratives Bourke, John, 208 Cannibalism, xix, 117, See Diet Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891), Cape Verde Islands, 77 208, See Scatology Capitalism, xii–xx, xxv–xxvii, 14, 22–24, Boyle, Robert, 1–2, 78 28, 35–38, 43–47, 76, 81, 87, Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of 112–121, 129, 154, 173, 186, 196, the Air (1674), See Miasma Theory 213–215, See Commodiﬁcation Brace, Jeffrey, 147, See Slave Narratives Caribbean, xiv–xx, 20, 28–32, 77–80, Brazil, 101–102, 162–164 87–89, 100–101, 113–116, 148, Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages 152–157, 161, 175–193, See de, 209 Colonialism Breton, Nicholas, 10 Carnivalesque, 124, 188 Smale Handfull of Fragrant Flowers Carolinas, 96, 195 (1575), 10 Cartwright, Samuel, 202 Brisson, Pierre Raymond de, 105 Cary, Alfred Joyce, 217 Voyages to the Coast of Africa (1792), The African Witch (1936), 217 105 Catesby, Mark, 96

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Catholic, 9, 48, 55–57, 76, 102, 163–165, Common Wind, 30, 161, 174 191, See Protestant Confederacy, 204–205, See Civil War Cats, xii, 134, 178 Congo, 54, 90, 98, 131, 144, 149, See Cattle, 90, 142–143, 156, 167, 208 Kongo Central America, 116–117, See Pim, Congo Jack, 149 Bedford Conjuring, 65, 155, 166–171, 190, See Ceremonial Songs, 144–145, 177, See Ring Obeah Shout Connecticut, 147 Chanvalon, Thibault de, 91 Cooper River, 148, See South Carolina Charles, Earl Grey, 115 Corry, Joseph, 82 Chicken, 168, 180, 185, See Diet Observations upon the Windward Coast Chireau, Yvonne, 171 of Africa (1807), 82 Chitlings, 170, See Pigs Craniology, 199, 206, See Phrenology Citizenship, 25, 92, 103, 197, 203, See Creole Jack, 149 Civilizing Process Creolization, 31, 127, 158–161, 166–170, Civil Rights Movement, 217 191–193, Civil War, 118, 169, 201–205, 216, See See Survivals Antebellum Era Crocker, William, 136 Civilizing Process, 7, 13, 36–39, 131, 218, Cuba, 173 See Cleanliness Culpepper, Amelia, 189 Clapperton, Hugh, 131, 135 Curse of Ham, xix, 25, 52–53, 58, 73, 94, Clarkson, Thomas, 149, See Abolitionism See Monogenesis Cleanliness, xi, 2–3, 27–28, 36–38, 42, 72, 85–87, 99, 125, 129–132, 145, 153, Dahomey, 116, 141, 163, 193 204, 208–211, 216, See Bathing Darwin, Erasmus, 16 Climatology, 25, 56, 80, 84, 104, 110, 195 Botanic Garden (1791), 17 Moral Climatology, 110, 115 Davis, Natalie, 57 Clothing, xviii, 69, 90, 115, 125, 139, 162, Dawdy, Shannon, 90 See Skin Dekkar, Thomas, 68 Cofﬂe, 147, 154, See Middle Passage Lust’s Dominion (1657), 68 Cogan, Thomas, 11 Demons, xii, 125, 182–185, 192, 218, See The Haven of Health (1636), 11 Witchcraft Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 63, See Denham, Dixon, 131, 135 Shakespeare, William Deren, Maya, 192 Coles, William, 11 Diet, xix, xxvi, 54–55, 79, 99, 125, 140, Adam in Eden (1657), 11 144, 160, 167–168, 212, See Taste Collier, George, 113, 151 Digital Racism, 212–216, See Genetic Code Report on Captured Negroes in Tortola Dillon, Elizabeth, 59 (1825), 114 Divining, 33, 139, 146, 163, Collyer, Joseph, 96 See Smelling–Out New System of Geography (1765), 96 Dodoens, Rembert, 11 Colombia, 102 New Herbal (1578), 11 Colonialism, xii–xx, 18, 27, 38, 43–45, 65, Dogs, 34, 158, 168–174, 190, 205, See Slave 79, 85–106, 110–117, 121–133, Narratives 139–143, 157–162, 177, 182–186, Douglas, Niel, 149, See Abolitionism 195–196, 205, 209–217, See Douglass, Frederick, 173, See Slave Caribbean Narratives Commodiﬁcation, xii–xvi, xx, 6, 18–22, 28, Dr. Jones, 168, See Slave Narratives 35–38, 65, 77–83, 92, 103, 118, Drayton, Michael, 70 124–125, 129, 133, 147, 152–154, Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), 202–203, 173, 191, See Capitalism See Citizenship

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Du Pratz, Monsieur Antoine-Simon Le Page, Fernando Po, 114 90–91 Fish, 40, 54, 65, 99, 147 Dupuis, Joseph, 135 Florida, 96, 169 Journal of a Residence in Ashante (1824), Flowers, x, xvii, 55, 101, See Gardens 135 Floyer, John, 3 Dutch, 54, 90, 163, 211 Flux, xiii, 152, See Excrement Dystopia, 198–202 Folklore, 34, 40–41, 75, 102, 139–141 Fowler, O.S., 207 Ebed-Melech, 51 Synopsis of Phrenology, 207 Edgeworth, Maria, 188 France, 156 “The Grateful Negro,” 188 French, xviii, 27, 40–41, 89–91, 98–101, Belinda (1801), 188 105, 119–120, 130, 144, 150, Edwards, Bryan, 188–191 155–156, 160, 191, 209 History, Civil and Commercial, of the Freud, Sigmund, 42, 207 British West Indies (1793), 191 Verschiebung, 42, 195 Egba, 138 Friedman, Emily, 34 Eggs, 177, 185 Frobisher, Martin, 86 Elephants, 73, 140, 183 Frogs, 169, 185 Elizabeth I, 58 Funeral Rites, 130, 142, 153, 169, 181, 185, Emancipation, xvi, 114, 171, 184, 197, 205, See Altar Rituals 216, See Runaway Slaves English Civil War, 69–71, 87 Goofer Dust, 169, See Conjure Episteme, 8, 85 Galen, 10, 56, 110 Equiano, Olaudah, 33, 125, 133–134, Humoral Medicine, 1, 110 147–149, 195 Gambia River, 129 Interesting Narrative (1789), 125, Gamble, Samuel, 107, See Sandown See Slave Narratives Garden of Eden, 87 Ethiopia, 42, 51, 55, 89, 123 Garden, Alexander, 146 Ethnobotany, 145, 165, See Herbal Gardens, 16, 75, 177, See Weeds Medicine Gazlay, Allen, 201–202 Ethnogenesis, 34, 127, 134, 139, 158, 166, Broadluck, Cephus, 201–202 See Creolization Races of Humankind with Travels in Eugenics, 196, See Social Darwinism Grubland (1856), 201, See Dystopia Evans, William McKee, 52 Genetic Code, 215–216, See Digital Racism Excrement, xiii–xiv, 23, 33, 38, 90, Georgia, 119, 152, 166–170 143–148, 152–154, 167–171, 185, Gerard, John, 11 190, 208, 212–213, 217–218 General History of Plants (1633), 11 German, 132, 209 Falconbridge, Alexander, xii, 148 Geurts, Kathryn, 143 Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast Ghana, 130, 180 of Africa (1788), xii, See Middle Ghosts, 40, 123, 134–144, 182, 190, See Passage Smelling–Out Fanon, Frantz, xii, 112, See Colonialism Gikandi, Simon, 25–26 Federal Writers Project, 33, 167–171, See Giraffes, 73 Slave Narratives Gliddon, George, 206, See Phrenology Fee, John Gregg, 200 Global South, xviii, 22, 122–124, 211, See Anti-Slavery Manual (1848), 200 Colonialism Feerick, Jean, 58 Goats, 56, 62, 99, 192 Fennell, Christopher, 157 Gold Coast, 89, 113, 130–132, 136, 150 Fenning, Daniel, 96 Goldsmith, Oliver, 16, 100, See Industrial New System of Geography (1765), 96 Revolution

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Gomez, Michael, 158 Hodgman, Stephen Alexander, 201 Gomez, Pablo, 161 Hoffer, Peter Charles, 32 Gould, George Milbry, 209 Holgate, Jerome, 199–200 Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Bolokitten, Oliver, 199–201 (1896), 209 Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation Grainger, James, 79 (1835), 199–200, See Dystopia The Sugar Cane (1764), 79 Holy Office, 161–162, See Catholic Grandin, Greg, 211 Home, Henry, 104 Grease, 90, 96, 171, See Skin Sketches of the History of Man (1774), Great Chain of Being, 106 104 Great Depression, 167, See Federal Writers Hunter, Charles, 166, See Slave Narratives Project Hutchinson, Thomas, 83 Greene, Asa, 198–200 Huxley, Elspeth, 142 A Yankee among the Nullifiers (1833), The Flame Trees of Thika (1959), 142 198, See Nullification Crisis Hyenas, 137 Greenhill, William, 67 Sound-Hearted Christian (1670), 67 Ibn Botlan, 53, See Islam Guinea, 55, 100, 105–107, 130, 136 Igbo, 133, 142–143, 170, 180, See Survivals Gunpowder, 142, 152, 162 Industrial Revolution, 17 Gutenberg, Johannes, 9 Insoko, 130, 134 Printing Press, 8, 13 Islam, 43, 52–57, 130, 165 Ivory Coast, 145 Hair, ix, 31, 52, 89, 95–96, 102–104, 171, 183, 212, 217 Jackson, John Andrew, 125, See Runaway Haiti, 40–41, 75, 173, 187, 193, See San Slaves Domingue Jacobson–Widding, Anita, 144 Haitian Revolution, 187 Jamaica, xiii, 95–99, 116–117, 128, Hall, Gewndolyn, 158 155–156, 176–188, 195, See Obeah Handy, Sarah, 171 Jaudon, T.W., 187 “Negro Superstitions,” 171 Java, 211 Harding, Rachel, 162 Jefferson, Thomas, xi, 108, 209 Hartman, Saidiya, 38 Notes on the State of Virginia (1784), xi Heard, Wildred, 168, See Slave Narratives Jim Crow, 35, 45, 93, 205, 210, See Heath, Robert, 67 Reconstruction Clarastella (1650), 67 Jobson, Richard, 129 Heng, Geraldine, 73 Golden Trade (1623), 129 Henry the Navigator, 54 Johnson, Benjamin, 168, See Slave Herbal Medicine, 10, 33, 137, 141–145, Narratives 158–166, 176–180, 184–185, 219, See Myal Kemble, Fanny, 119 Herbert, George, 70 Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Remains (1652), 70 Plantation in 1838–1839 (1863), Herbert, Thomas, 77–78 119 Herrenvolk Democracy, 118, 202–203, Kentucky, 121, 166 210, See Whiteness Kenya, 142 Heywood, Thomas, 60 Kidd, Colin, 57 The Four Prentices (1615), 60 Kiechle, Melanie, 28 Hillary, William, 79 King George II, 3 Hispaniola, 40, 162, See Haiti King, Henry, 60 Hobbes, Thomas, 106, See Body Politic “The Defense,” 60 Hodge, Arthur, xiv King, Thomas, 138

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Kinsey, Cindy, 169, See Slave Narratives The Dumbe Knight (1608), 66 Klineberg, Otto, 210 Marsan, H. De, 203–204, See Minstrel Kongo, 144, 162, 169, See Congo Shows Kriz, Kay Dian, 186 Martens, Stephanie, 106 Kumina, 179 Martinique, 91, 180 Massachusetts, 136, 198 Latimer, George, 172 Massey, Gerald, 137–139 Laundry, 129, 162, 168, See Soap The Natural Genesis (1883), 137 Leopards, 137 Master Juba, 203, See Minstrel Shows Leprosy, 94, 109–110, See Monogenesis McClintock, Anne, 133 Leviticus, 94, See Old Testament McKenzie, P.R., 138 Liberia, 132, 198, See Emancipation Mead, Richard, 3, See Miama Theory Ligon, Richard, 87–89 Measles, 94 A True and Exact History of the Island of Medicine Man, 143, 155–156, 164–169, See Barbadoes (1657), 88, See Bathing Obeah Linnaeus, Carolus, 47 Mello e Souza, Laura de, 162 Lions, 73, 137, 141 Memmi, Albert, 126, See Colonialism Locke, John, 106 Mercantilism, xxvii, 18, 118, See Capitalism Long, Edward, 97–100, 128, 185, 191, 209 Métraux, Alfred, 193, See Vodou History of Jamaica (1774), 97, 191 Miasma Theory, xiii, 1–5, 27–28, 78–80, Lopes, Duarte, 24, 43, 54–55, 120 95, 113–115, 153, 212, See Royal Report of the Kingdome of Congo (1597), Society 54 Middle Passage, xii, 25, 33, 89, 126–128, Lord Mayor’s Pageants, 73–74 146–160, 166–168, 174–176, 185, Lord Peter, 92 191–193, 204, 214, See Slave Ship Louisiana, 90–91, 171 Miller, Joseph, 158 Lowe, Donald, 13 Minas Gerais, 162, See Brazil Lynching, 196, See Reconstruction Minkisi, 169, See Kongo Minstrel Shows, 101, 203–204, See MacFall, Major Haldane, 190 Blackface The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer (1898), Mirror of Misery (1814), xiv, See 190 Abolitionism MacGaffey, Wyatt, 145 Mississippi, 196 Machin, Lewis, 66 Missouri, 172 The Dumbe Knight (1608), 66 Mitchell, John, 94–97, 109, 209, See Royal MacQueen, James, 115 Society Maggots, 147 Monogenesis, 24–25, 86, 119, 209, See Maitland, Frederick, 182 Curse of Ham Makandals, 182, See Calabash Montgomery, James, xvi Malaria, 83, 104 The Negro’s Vigil (1834), xvi, See Mali, 54, 135 Abolitionism Mami Wata, 163–165, 184 Moody, Thomas, 114 Mandeville, John, 49–55 Morant Bay, 117, 185, See Jamaica Mandinga, Francisco, 161 Morgan, America, 172, See Slave Narratives Mann, Daniel, 172 Morgan, W.B., 121 Marabout, 130, See Islam Morocco, 56 Marees, Pieter de, 54 Morton, Samuel George, 206, See Description and Historical Account of the Phrenology Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602), 54 Moseley, Benjamin, 177–178, 185 Mark of Cain, 25, 73, 94, See Monogenesis A Treatise on Sugar (1800), 177 Markham, Gervase, 66 Moses, Patsy, 168, See Slave Narratives

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Moss, Henry, 109 Paternalism, 200–201, 205, See Antebellum Mozambique, 100, 105 Era Myal, 179, 183–184, See Herbal Medicine Pepper, 162, 167, See Spices Pereira, Jose Francisco, 163 Namibia, 164, See San Perfume, 3, 12–13, 44, 54, 74, 99–101, Nash, Richard, 92 129–135, 139, 152–155, 163, 200, Native Americans, 20, 90, 96, 208 See Bathing Ndembu, 144, See Zambia Peyrère, Isaac de La, 86 Necromancy, 139, 153, 177, See Funeral Prae-Adamitae (1655), 86, See Polygenesis Rites Phrenology, xviii, 105, 136, 196, 206–207, Nepveu, Jean, 163, See Suriname See Craniology Nevis, 149 Pigs, 151, 178–181, 217, See Diet New France, 91, See Louisiana Pim, Bedford, 116–117, 141–142 New Imperialism, 115, 208, See The Negro and Jamaica (1866), 116 Colonialism Dottings on the Roadside (1869), 117 New Kingdom of Granada, 161 Pinckard, George, 100, 148 New York City, 157, 203 Pinta, Luiza, 162 Newton, John, xiii, 148 Plant Roots, 137, 162, 177, See Weeds Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 210, See Jim (1788), xiii, See Abolitionism Crow Nigeria, 132–134, 142–143 Plessy, Homer, 210 North Carolina, 171 Poison, 156–158, 163, 178–183, Northrup, Solomon, 171, See Slave See Obeah Narratives Polydore, 184 Nose, xviii, 1–3, 7–10, 16, 30, 43–47, Polygenesis, 24–25, 44, 84–89, 95–99, 75–76, 84–87, 104–106, 110, 103–104, 111, 119–120, 196, 209, 118–119, 126–129, 136–137, 144, See Scientific Racism 165–168, 172–173, 185, 191, Pope Leo X, 57 196–201, 205–209, See Cleanliness Portuguese, 43, 54–55, 131, 150, See Brazil Nott, Josiah, 206, See Phrenology Pory, John, 57 Nullification Crisis, 198, See Antebellum Pouchet, Georges, 119–120 Era The Plurality of the Human Race (1864), 119, See Scientific Racism Obeah, 33–35, 176–192, See Creolization Prester John, 49, 53 Ogilby, John, 89, 130, 134–135 Price, Richard, 193, See Creolization Africa (1670), 134 Priest, Josiah, xix Ogoun, 192, See Yoruba Slavery (1849), xix, See Antebellum Era Oji, 141, See Ghana Primates, 199 Old Testament, 42, 51–52, 70, 177, See Primitive Accumulation, xii, 46–47, 87, See Curse of Ham Capitalism Ole Heg Tale, 170, See Witchcraft Protestant, 20, 49–50, 64, 84–85, 115, 165, Oliveira, Isabela Maria de, 162 See Catholic Onions, 167 Pruner–Bey, Franz, 209 Orientalism, 141, See Xenophobia Pseudoscience, xviii, 93, 109–110, 125, Origins Debate, 24, 45, See Slavery and 207–209, See Scientific Racism Capitalism Public Sphere, xvi–xviii, 13, 23, 45, 69, 73, Orisha, 138, See Yoruba 92, 115, 124, 191, 197, 212–216, See Republic of Letters Palm Oil, 54, 130–131, 152, See Perfume Purchas, Samuel, 120 Panama Canal, 116, See Pim, Bedford Purchas’ Pilgrims (1626), 54 Paramaribo, 139, See Suriname Pyle, Walter, 209

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Queen of Sheba, 49 Scientiﬁc Racism, xviii, 25, 47, 103–106, Quran, 53, See Islam 136, 196–197, 205–215, See Polygenesis Race Coding, 5, 44, 87, 120, 174, See Public Scotland, 134, 148 Sphere Scott, James, 30, 123 Rainsford, Marcus, 174 Hidden Transcripts, 30, 123–124, 160 Ram’s Horn, 183 Weapons of the Weak, 30, 123, 159 Ramsey, Kate, 162 Scramble for Africa, xx, 93, 104, 111–112, Rancière, Jacques, 59 121, See Colonialism Rape, xiv, 61, 101, 156 Senegal, 98 Rasmussen, Susan, 143 Senior, Emily, 79 Rath, Richard Cullen, 32 Sensorium, 13, 74, 85, 139, 143–146, 212 Rattray, Robert, 137 Serres, Michel, 37 Rawlins, Henry, 149 The Parasite (1982), 37 Reconstruction, 171, 205, See Jim Crow Sesame, 170, See Bene Seeds Reddit, 212, See Digital Racism Seth, Suman, 79 Reformation, 8, 12, 24, 70, 76, 218, See Settler Colonialism, 22, 43, See Colonialism Protestant Shakespeare, William, ix–x, 15, 35, 42, Reis, Joao, 163 60–65, 74–76, 214 Renaissance, 16, 49–50, 59, 69, 195 Othello (1603), 61–63 Renny, Robert, 112, 181 Sonnets, ix An History of Jamaica (1807), 112, 181 The Tempest (1610), 64–65 Republic of Letters, 85, 100, 120, 160, 195, Titus Andronicus (1594), 42, 61–62 206, See Public Sphere Sharp, Granville, 149, See Abolitionism Republicanism, 197, See Citizenship Sheep, 90 Rhinoceros, 208 Sherman, William Tecumseh, 204, See Civil Ring Shout, 31, 165, See Ceremonial Songs War Rio de Janeiro, 164, See Brazil Sierra Leone, xvii, 55, 82, 113–115, 132, River Bonny, 151, See Nigeria 198 See Emancipation Romanticism, 186–190 Free Town, 114 Rotter, Andrew, 18 Skin, x–xiv, xviii, 23–25, 40–42, 48–56, 61, Royal African Company, 195, See Middle 69–71, 75, 84–86, 90–97, 101, 109, Passage 115, 169–171, 178, 202–204, 209, Royal Society, 1–3, 93–97, 109, See Miasma 213, See Leprosy Theory Slave Narratives, 33, 171–172, See Federal Rucker, Walter, 166 Writers Project Runaway Slaves, xiii, 125, 171–172, 205, Slave Ship, xiii, 30, 123, 146–154, 195, See See Federal Writers Project Middle Passage Rush, Benjamin, 108–113, 209, See Anna Maria, 151 American Philosophical Society Brookes, 149–150, See Abolitionism Rodeur, 150 San, 164–165, See Namibia San Antonio, 150 San Domingue, 157, 162, See Haiti Slavery and Capitalism, 46, See Origins Sandoval, Alonso de, 55 Debate Sandown, 107, See Gamble, Samuel Sloane, Hans, 79 Sante Will, 136 Smallpox, 94 Santeria, 193, See Cuba Smellie, William, 105 Scatology, 208–209, See Excrement Smelling-Out, 33, 136–139, 143–146, 158, Schiebinger, Londa, 158 163–166, 180–183, 214, See Schotte, J.P., 104 Divining Synochus Atrabiliosa (1778), 104 Smith, Bruce, 35

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Smith, Gus, 172, See Slave Narratives Taste, xxii, 11–12, 151, 160, 213, 219, See Smith, Mark, 28, 45, 118, 210 Diet Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 102, See Hair Taylor, Charles, 19 Smith, William, 131 Teeth, 53–54, 177, See Diet Smoking Moor, 74 Texas, 168 Snakes, 156, 168, 183–185 Thistlewood, Thomas, xiii, See Rape Soap, 119, 129–133, 152, 170, See Bathing Thomas, Dicey, 167, See Slave Narratives Social Darwinism, xviii, 137–139, 196, 205, Thomas, Herbert, 185 209, See Scientiﬁc Racism Something about Obeah (1891), 185 Social Death, 154, See Middle Passage Thompson, George, 132 Sofala, 105, See Mozambique Thompson, Robert Farris, 144, 164–165 Soubise, Julius, 101, See Minstrel Shows Thornton, John, 158 Soudan, 131, 135 Three Fingered Jack, 178, See Jamaica South Carolina, 125, 146–148, Tomkis, Thomas, 4 170–172 Lingua (1622), 4 Spanish, 55, 150–151 Torrid Zone, 111–113, 118, See Caribbean Spices, 162, See Pepper Tortoises, 140 Spiders, 140, See Ananse Tryon, Thomas, 2–3 Stafford, John, x Letters upon Several Occasions (1700), 2, The Academy of Pleasure (1665), x, See See Cleanliness Whiteness Tuareg, 143, See Nigeria Static Africa, 127, 146, See Archive Tucker, Sarah, xvii Stepan, Nancy, 103 Abbeokuta, or Sunrise within the Tropics Stinking Peas, 162 (1853), See Emancipation Stono Rebellion, 32, 157, See South Turner, Victor, 144 Carolina Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 173, 201 Uncle Jake, 167, See Slave Narratives Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), 173, 201 Uruguay, 102 Sue, Eugene, 155 Atar Gull Vago, Ambrose, 207 Or, The Slave’s Revenge (1846), 155 Orthodox Phrenology (1870), 207 Sugar, xv, 87–91, 98, See Capitalism Van Allen, Charles, 118 Sugar Revolution, 87, See Barbados “Suggestions upon Animal Odor,” 119 Suicide, 62, 151–153, 183 Van Beek, W.E.A., 143 Sullivan’s Island, 148, See South Carolina Vaughn, Virginia, 62 Sultan of Sego, 135 Villault, Sieur Suriname, 139, 163 Relation of the Coasts of Africk Called Survivals, 128, 139, 158–166, 170, 176, Guinee (1670), 130 191, See Creolization Virey, Julien, xviii, xix Süskind, Patrick, 8 Natural History of the Negro Race Swediaur, Franz, 109 (1837), xviii, See Polygenesis Sweet, James, 53, 163 Virginia, xi, 94, 172 Swetnam, Joseph, 70 Vodou, 40, 162, 192–193, See Haiti Araignment of Lewd, Idle, and Vomit, 199–200, See Excrement Unconstant Women (1615), 70 Warner–Lewis, Maureen, 158 Tachard, Guy, 90–91 Washing the Ethiopian, 24, 41, 59, 69–72, Relation of the Voyage to Siam (1688), 90 88, 99, 141, 204, See Aesop Tacit Knowledge, 15–18, 24–26, 47, 83–85, Weaver, Karol, 161 97, 196, 219, See Public Sphere Webb, William, 166, See Slave Narratives Tacky, 176, See Jamaica Weeds, 54, 107, 177, See Flowers

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Weemes, John, 72–73, See Anti-Semitism Western Africa (1856), 132 Welsh, James, 129, See Benin Witchcraft, xii, 64, 103, 117, 136–142, White, Graham, 31 162–166, 170, 178–183, 214–217, White, Shane, 31 See Demons Whiteness, x–xi, 18, 33, 41, 47–48, 52, 67, Woods, Maggie, 170, See Slave Narratives 71, 91, 98–101, 118, 193, 197, 202, Wroth, Mary, 60 210, See Herrenvolk Democracy Urania (1621), 60 Whitney, Geffrey, 69 A Choice of Emblemes (1586), 69, See Xenophobia, 137, 205, See Whiteness Washing the Ethiopian Wilberforce, William, 149, See Yellow Fever, 82, 118 Abolitionism Yeo, James, 150 Wild Man, 92, 106, See Civilizing Process Yoruba, xvii, 138, 192, See Nigeria Wilkinson, William, 130–131 Young, Jason, 158, 166 Systema Africanum (1690), 130 Williams, Cynric, 189 Zambia, 144, See Ndembu Hamel, Obeah Man (1827), 189 Zimbabwe, 134 Williams, Father Joseph, 191 Zombies, 178, See Obeah Voodoos and Obeahs (1932), 191 Zulu, 183 Wilson, John Leighton, 132 Zuni, 208, See Native Americans