"Some could suckle over their shoulder": male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology -- "The number of women doeth much disparayes the whole cargoe": the trans-Atlantic slave trade and west African gender roles -- "The breedings shall goe with their mothers": gender and evolving practices of slaveownership in the English American colonies -- "Hannah and hir children": reproduction and creolization among enslaved women -- "Women's sweat": gender and agricultural labor in the Atlantic world -- "Deluders and seducers of each other": gender and the changing nature of resistance
Summary
How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified--and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves
Analysis
African Studies
African-American Studies
American History
American Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index
Notes
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