Laboring Women Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

Name: Laboring Women Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
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ISBN: 9780812218732

ISBN-10: 0812218736

ISBN-13: 9780812218732

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jennifer L. Morgan

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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 bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. InLaboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses became intertwined in the English colonies. Beginning with the ideological foundations of racial slavery in early modern Europe,Laboring Women traverses the Atlantic, exploring the social and cultural lives of women in West Africa, slaveowners' expectations for reproductive labor, and women's lives as…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 2/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University.



List of Illustrations


Note on Sources


Introduction



"Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology



"The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe": The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles



"The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers": Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies



"Hannah and Hir Children": Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women



"Women's Sweat": Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World



"Deluders and Seducers of Each Other": Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Acknowledgments