Professor Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy discusses her book, “Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean,” which examines the relationship between disability, antiblack racism, and slavery in the sugar-producing colonies of the British Caribbean. Prof. Hunt-Kennedy explains how disability was a defining feature of slavery’s violence and it’s antiblack racism.

Professor Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, Associate Professor, Department of History at the University of New Brunswick. She also serves on the Council for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and on the Editorial Board for the William & Mary Quarterly.