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Contested Bodies - Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

English · Paperback / Softback

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Exploring how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children, this volume examines the struggles for control over biological reproduction and shows how central childbearing was to the organization of plantation work, the care of slaves, and the development of their culture.


List of contents










Introduction. Transforming Bodies

Chapter 1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition

Chapter 2. "The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed": The Quest for Biological Reproduction

Chapter 3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment

Chapter 4. "Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good": Struggles over Maternal Health Care

Chapter 5. "Dead Before the Ninth Day": Struggles over Neonatal Care

Chapter 6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children's Survival

Chapter 7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood

Conclusion. Transforming Slavery

Notes

Sources

Index

Acknowledgments


About the author










Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Quinnipiac University.

Summary

Contested Bodies explores how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children. Examining the struggles for control over biological reproduction, Turner shows how central childbearing was to the organization of plantation work, the care of slaves, and the development of their culture.

Product details

Authors Sasha Turner
Publisher University of pennsylvania pr
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.07.2019
 
EAN 9780812224603
ISBN 978-0-8122-2460-3
No. of pages 277
Series Early American Studies
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Geschichte, Karibik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, History - General History, HISTORY / Women

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