• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The politics of reproduction : race, medicine, and fertility in the age of abolition
  • Contributor: Paugh, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
  • Published in: The past & present book series
  • Issue: First edition.
  • Extent: 1 online resource; illustrations (black and white)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198789789.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191831478
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  • Keywords: Women, Black History 18th century Caribbean Area ; Women, Black History 19th century Caribbean Area ; Labor demand History Caribbean Area ; Slavery 18th century Caribbean Area ; Great Britain Colonies Population History
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  • Footnote: This edition previously issued in print: 2017. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 21, 2017)
  • Description: In the age of abolition, British politicians, slave owners, doctors, and missionaries were promoting motherhood among women working on Caribbean plantations, as a way to sustain the labor force in the absence of new African recruits. Paugh recounts the story of a Barbadian midwife to explore how this effort was experienced by Afro-Caribbean women.