Superannuated: Old Age on the Antebellum Plantation
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DOI: 10.1353/aq.2019.0053
Abstract: Abstract:The label superannuated or, equivalently, no value, appears in plantation logbooks to demarcate enslaved laborers whose age had diminished their utility. This essay argues that superannuation marks a key point of emergence in the biopolitical… read more here.
Keywords: age antebellum; age; superannuation; plantation ... See more keywords