Kiel 1675: On a cold December night, the body of a young woman and her baby are found in the city on the Baltic Sea. For his research project on the history of skin, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, historian Craig Koslofsky traces the mystery surrounding the dead woman. For the woman and her baby were black and no one knew how and why the two strangers came to Kiel. The woman's body was taken to the Medical Faculty of Kiel University, where it was examined and dissected. The Kiel physicians were particularly interested in the woman's black skin and what made it black. But the scientists of the time were also interested in constructing a fundamental difference between blacks and whites that would be used to justify modern racism.
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