Conclusion
Race, Nose, Truth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2020
Summary
Anglo-Atlantic culture deodorized through shifting negative olfactory identities to their African slave subjects throughout the Atlantic littoral. It was not an inferior English culture that smelled of a barbarian past while the continent wafted of perfumed and deodorized elegance. Rather, stinking was for the beastly objects who toiled in the fields of Jamaica, in the cotton dens of the Carolinas, or for those that suffered the slave ships of the Royal African Company.
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- The Smell of SlaveryOlfactory Racism and the Atlantic World, pp. 195 - 219Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020