Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World SlaveryHow childbearing among enslaved women became commodified—and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves. |
Contents
Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder Male Travelers Female Bodies and the Gendering of Racial Ideology | 14 |
The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe The TransAtlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles | 52 |
The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies | 71 |
Hannah and Hir Children Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women | 109 |
Womens Sweat Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World | 146 |
Deluders and Seducers of Each Other Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance | 168 |
Epilogue | 198 |
Notes | 205 |
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Acknowledgments | 279 |
Other editions - View all
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan Limited preview - 2011 |
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery Jennifer Lyle Morgan No preview available - 2004 |
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery Jennifer Morgan No preview available - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
African women Americas Assembly Atlantic Atlantic Slave Trade Barbadian Barbados became behavior Bight Bight of Biafra birth Black Majority black women bodies breasts Cambridge Caribbean Charlestown child childbirth Colonial South Carolina connection creolization cultural daughter early modern economic eighteenth century English enslaved Africans enslaved persons enslaved women ethnic European female fertility future gender girls Gold Coast Guinea History identity Indian Inventory island John Journal labor land legislators Ligon London Lowcountry mainland male Mary Quarterly 3rd Middle Passage Morgan mothers narrative Native American North Carolina Press notion numbers numbers of women outnumbered owners parents percent plantation planters population race racial slavery records reproductive lives rice Richard Robert Royal African Company runaways SCDAH servants settlers seventeenth sex ratios sexual ship slave societies slave trade slaveholdings slaveowners slaveownership slavery social Stono Rebellion sugar tion Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade University Press Voyages West African West Indies wife women enslaved women's reproductive York