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Creating and Fighting Stereotypes of Sin and Sexual Excess: Leprosy and Race in the 18th-Century Caribbean

45m · Stereotypes and Stereotyping in the Early Modern World · 20 Apr 10:30

Kristen Block, associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, presents on the stereotypes against different races and ailments in the 18th-century Caribbean.

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