Contested Bodies (Paperback)

Sasha Turner

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Langue : anglais

Edité par University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania, 2019

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Paperback. 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 that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children.Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources-including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence-Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Titre
Contested Bodies (Paperback)
Auteur
Sasha Turner
Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania
Année de publication
2019
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0812224604
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780812224603

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