Contested bodies : pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica /

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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Main Author: Turner, Sasha (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Slavery > Jamaica > Social conditions > 18th century.
Slavery > Jamaica > Social conditions > 19th century.
Pregnancy > Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Pregnancy > Jamaica > History > 19th century.
Motherhood > Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Motherhood > Jamaica > History > 19th century.
Enslaved children > Jamaica > Social conditions > 18th century.
Enslaved children > Jamaica > Social conditions > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Jamaica > History > 19th century.
Motherhood.

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Call Number: HT1096 .T875 2017
Status: Available

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