Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

by Sasha Turner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224604
• ISBN13: 9780812224603
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 10.2"