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In the age of abolition, British politicians, slave owners, doctors, and missionaries were promoting motherhood among women working on Caribbean plantations, as a way to sustain the labor force in the absence of new African recruits. Paugh recounts the story of a Barbadian midwife to explore how this effort was experienced by Afro-Caribbean women.
Sommario
- Introduction
- 1: 'The Old Settlers Have Bred a Great Quantity of Slaves': Slavery, Reproduction, and Revolution, 1763-1797
- 2: The Curious Case of Mary Hylas: Wives, Slaves, and the Limits of British Abolitionism
- 3: Conceiving Fertility in the Age of Abolition: Slavery, Sexuality, and the Politics of Medical Knowledge
- 4: A West Indian Midwife's Tale: The Politics of Childbirth on Newton Plantation
- 5: 'An Increasing Capital in an Increasing Gang': Governing Reproduction, 1798-1838
- 6: Missionaries, Madams, and Mothers in Barbados
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Introduction
- 1: 'The Old Settlers Have Bred a Great Quantity of Slaves': Slavery, Reproduction, and Revolution, 1763-1797
- 2: The Curious Case of Mary Hylas: Wives, Slaves, and the Limits of British Abolitionism
- 3: Conceiving Fertility in the Age of Abolition: Slavery, Sexuality, and the Politics of Medical Knowledge
- 4: A West Indian Midwife's Tale: The Politics of Childbirth on Newton Plantation
- 5: 'An Increasing Capital in an Increasing Gang': Governing Reproduction, 1798-1838
- 6: Missionaries, Madams, and Mothers in Barbados
- Afterword
- Bibliography
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Katherine Paugh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Her research interests encompass the history of race and gender, the history of medicine, and the politics of childbearing. She has been selected for over a dozen grants and fellowships that support outstanding research, including awards from the Huntington Library and the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Her work has appeared in journals including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Past & Present, and Slavery & Abolition. In 2014, she was awarded the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize.
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In the age of abolition, British politicians, slave owners, doctors, and missionaries were promoting motherhood among women working on Caribbean plantations, as a way to sustain the labor force in the absence of new African recruits. Paugh recounts the story of a Barbadian midwife to explore how this effort was experienced by Afro-Caribbean women.
Testo aggiuntivo
The Politics of Reproduction is an interesting and multifaceted book, linking discussion of the parliamentary politics of the abolition debates with aspects of Caribbean social history ... This study therefore adds some valuable new perspectives to our understanding of the struggles over slavery and abolition in the British empire, but it is also certain to fuel ongoing debates about those struggles and their wider significance.
