... explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference." For instance, in the mid-seventeenth century Englishman Richard Ligon wrote of the black women he encountered on his travels as having monstrous bodies, with breasts that "[hung] down below their navels, so that when they ... ...

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