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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Sasha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
1700-1899
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.
Grossesse > Jamaïque > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Grossesse > Jamaïque > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Maternité > Jamaïque > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Maternité > Jamaïque > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Enfants esclaves > Jamaïque > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Enfants esclaves > Jamaïque > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Jamaïque > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Jamaïque > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
Enslaved children > Social conditions
Antislavery movements
Motherhood
Pregnancy
Slavery > Social conditions
Jamaica
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conceiving moral and industrious subjects: women, children, and abolition
  • "The best ones who are fit to breed: the quest for biological reproduction
  • When workers become mothers, who works? Motherhood, labor, and punishment
  • Buckra doctor no do you no good: struggles over maternal health care
  • Dead before the ninth day: struggles over neonatal care
  • Mothers know best? Maternal authority and children's survival
  • Raising hardworking adults: labor, punishment, and slave childhood
  • Conclusion: transforming slavery.

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