Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cowling, Camillia; West, Emily; Paton, Diana; Toledo Machado, Maria Helena Pereira

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of 'mothering' that took place in Atlantic slave societies. This book comprises two special issues, originally published in Slavery & Abolition and Women's History Review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429535802
• Artikelnr.: 59539336

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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