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The Politics of Reproduction : Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition /

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 thi...

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Main Author: Paugh, Katherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2017.
Series:Past & present book series.
Subjects:
Women, Black > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Women, Black > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Labor demand > Caribbean Area > History.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > 18th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Population > History.
Fertility.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Fertility
Women > history
Black People > history
Enslavement > ethics
Colonialism > history
Reproductive Behavior > ethnology
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Caribbean Region > ethnology
United Kingdom
Femmes noires > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Femmes noires > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Marché du travail > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Population > Histoire.
Fécondité.
Médecine > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Medicine
British colonies
Labor demand
Population
Slavery
Women, Black
Caribbean Area
1700-1899
Electronic books.
History
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