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Philadelphia : University of pennsylvania press, inc., 2017.
ISBN
9780812294057
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CONTENTS
Introduction. Transforming Bodies
1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition
2. “The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed”: The Quest for Biological Reproduction
3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment
4. “Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good”: Struggles over Maternal Health Care
5. “Dead Before the Ninth Day”: Struggles over Neonatal Care
6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children’s Survival
7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood
Conclusion. Transforming Slavery
Notes
Sources
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Transforming Bodies
1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition
2. “The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed”: The Quest for Biological Reproduction
3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment
4. “Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good”: Struggles over Maternal Health Care
5. “Dead Before the Ninth Day”: Struggles over Neonatal Care
6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children’s Survival
7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood
Conclusion. Transforming Slavery
Notes
Sources
Index
Acknowledgments
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