Birthing a Slave PDF book is popular History book written by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. The book was released by Harvard University Press on 2010-03-30 with total hardcover pages 414. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Birthing a Slave by Marie Jenkins Schwartz in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after
Each time a child was born in bondage, the system of slavery began anew. Although raised by their parents or by surrogates in the slave community, children were
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation o
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that thes
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to
