| #441178 in Books | Turner Sasha | 2017-05-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x1.10 x6.30l, | File type: PDF | 328 pages | Contested Bodies Pregnancy Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica||||"An original and timely intervention in the histories of slavery, gender, and labor. In arguing that reproduction played a crucial role across a number of political and social divides, Contested Bodies becomes an excellent window through which we can u
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 before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (Early American Studies) | Sasha Turner. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
