LEADER 04870nam 22006975 450 001 9910493184803321 005 20211022015231.0 010 $a0-8122-9405-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812294057 035 $a(CKB)3710000001363045 035 $a(DE-B1597)481192 035 $a(OCoLC)987086648 035 $a(OCoLC)992454167 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812294057 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4854373 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001363045 100 $a20170630h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aContested bodies $epregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica /$fSasha Turner 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-4918-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Transforming Bodies --$t1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition --$t2. "The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed": The Quest for Biological Reproduction --$t3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment --$t4. "Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good": Struggles over Maternal Health Care --$t5. "Dead Before the Ninth Day": Struggles over Neonatal Care --$t6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children's Survival --$t7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood --$tConclusion: Transforming Slavery --$tNotes --$tSources --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIt is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources-including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence-Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aSlavery$zJamaica$xSocial conditions$y18th century 606 $aSlavery$zJamaica$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aPregnancy$zJamaica$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPregnancy$zJamaica$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMotherhood$zJamaica$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMotherhood$zJamaica$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aChild slaves$zJamaica$xSocial conditions$y18th century 606 $aChild slaves$zJamaica$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aAntislavery movements$zJamaica$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAntislavery movements$zJamaica$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlavery$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSlavery$xSocial conditions 615 0$aPregnancy$xHistory 615 0$aPregnancy$xHistory 615 0$aMotherhood$xHistory 615 0$aMotherhood$xHistory 615 0$aChild slaves$xSocial conditions 615 0$aChild slaves$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 700 $aTurner$b Sasha$01040819 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910493184803321 996 $aContested bodies$92463976 997 $aUNINA