Contested Bodies : : Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica / / Sasha Turner.
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years be...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Transforming Bodies
- 1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition
- 2. "The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed": The Quest for Biological Reproduction
- 3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment
- 4. "Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good": Struggles over Maternal Health Care
- 5. "Dead Before the Ninth Day": Struggles over Neonatal Care
- 6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children's Survival
- 7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood
- Conclusion: Transforming Slavery
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- Acknowledgments