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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

Turner, Sasha

Paperback

Series: Early American Studies

Caribbean HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0812224604
ISBN13: 9780812224603
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: Jul 12 2019
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

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 become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children.

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