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Paperback Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica Book

ISBN: 0812224604

ISBN13: 9780812224603

Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

(Part of the Early American Studies Series)

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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 before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure...

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