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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

Title : Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
Author : Sasha Turner
Language : en
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Uploaded : Apr 03, 2021

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