Black Women Slaves Who Nourished A Nation: Artistic Renderings of Black Wet Nurses of Brazil

by Kimberly Cleveland

This book is in the Cambria Studies in Slavery book series (General Editor: Ana Lucia Araujo).

This book includes color images.

Wet nursing in Brazil dates to approximately the late eighteenth century when upper-class families used black women slaves to breastfeed their white infants. Soon use of a black wet nurse became the norm among elite families in various parts of the country. Wet nursing developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604979593
• ISBN13: 9781604979596
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"