Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

by Jennifer L. Morgan

Book Overview

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses became intertwined in the English colonies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218736
• ISBN13: 9780812218732
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"