Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
- ISBN-10
- 0812218736
- ISBN-13
- 9780812218732
- Category
- History / Social History
- Pages
- 279
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated
- Author
- Jennifer Morgan
Description
How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified—and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves.
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