Sasha Turner

Contested Bodies

Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children, this volume examines the struggles for control over biological reproduction and shows how central childbearing was to the organization of plantation work, the care of slaves, and the development of their culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224603
• ISBN-10: 0812224604
• Artikelnr.: 56875884

Autorenporträt

Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Quinnipiac University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Transforming Bodies
Chapter 1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and
Abolition
Chapter 2. "The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed": The Quest for Biological
Reproduction
Chapter 3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and
Punishment
Chapter 4. "Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good": Struggles over Maternal
Health Care
Chapter 5. "Dead Before the Ninth Day": Struggles over Neonatal Care
Chapter 6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children's Survival
Chapter 7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave
Childhood
Conclusion. Transforming Slavery
Notes
Sources
Index
Acknowledgments