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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2017.
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| Series: | Past & present book series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 this effort was experienced by Afro-Caribbean women. |
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| Item Description: | United States. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0192506986 9780192506986 9780191831478 0191831476 9780198789789 0198789785 |