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Author:   Camillia Cowling ,  Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado ,  Diana Paton ,  Emily West
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9780367202026

ISBN 10:   0367202026
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   17 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction Part I: Mothers, Masters and the State: Motherhood and Reproduction under Slavery and Freedom 1. The Nameless and The Forgotten: Maternal Grief, Sacred Protection, and the Archive of Slavery 2. Maternal Struggles and the Politics of Childlessness under Pronatalist Caribbean Slavery 3. ""Bad Breeders"" and ""Monstrosities"": Racializing Childlessness and Congenital Disabilities in Slavery and Freedom Part II: Enslaved Women and the care of white children 4. The Enslaved Wet Nurse as Nanny: The Transition from Free to Slave Labor in Childcare in Barcelona after the Black Death (1348) 5. Between Two Beneditos: Enslaved Wet-Nurses amid Slavery’s Decline in Southeast Brazil 6. ""[S]He Could…Spare One Ample Breast for the Profit of her Owner"": White Mothers and Enslaved Wet Nurses’ Invisible Labor in American Slave Markets 7. Fertility Control, Shared Nurturing, and Dual Exploitation: The Lives of Enslaved Mothers in the Antebellum United States 8. Black nannies: Hidden and Open Images in the Paintings of Nicolas-Antoine Taunay Part III: Sexuality, Respectability, and Violence 9. ‘By her unnatural and despicable conduct’: motherhood and concubinage in the Watchman and Jamaica Free Press, 1830–1833 10. Conceived in Violence: Enslaved Mothers and Children Born of Rape in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana 11. Mistresses, Motherhood, and Maternal Exploitation in the Antebellum South Part IV: The Geographies of Motherhood 12. African Mothers in the City of Bahia, 1734-1799 13. The African Women of the Dos Hermanos Slave Ship in Cuba: slaves first, mothers second 14. Gendered Geographies: Motherhood, Slavery, Law, and Space In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba 15. Mothering Slaves, Labor, and the Persistence of Slavery in Northeast Brazil: A Non-Plantation View from the Hinterlands of Ceará, 1813-1884 Part V: Slavery and the Medicalisation of Childbirth 16. Midwifery and Childbirth Among Enslaved and Freed Women in Rio de Janeiro in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 17. Pregnant Slaves, Workers in Labour: Amid Doctors and Masters In A Slave-Owning City (nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro) Part VI: Mothering in the Era of Emancipation 18. U.S. Slavery, Civil War, and the Emancipation of Enslaved Motherhood 19. Bad Mothers, Labouring Children: Emancipation, Tutelage and Motherhood in São Paulo in the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century 20. In Pursuit of Autonomous Womanhood: Nineteenth-Century Black Motherhood in the U.S. North 21. From Free Womb to Criminalized Woman: Fertility Control in Brazilian Slavery and Freedom"

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Camillia Cowling is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Warwick, UK. Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado is Full Professor in the Department of History at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Diana Paton is William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Emily West is Professor of History at the University of Reading, UK.

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