Contested Bodies
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 women''s labor, discipline,...
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 women''s labor, discipline,...
