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Author: Marie Jenkins Schwartz
ISBN : 0674034929
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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 the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage.
In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infertility, and resolve gynecological problems, including cancer.
Black women, however, proved an unruly force, distrustful of both the slaveholders and their doctors. With their own healing traditions, emphasizing the power of roots and herbs and the critical roles of family and community, enslaved women struggled to take charge of their own health in a system that did not respect their social circumstances, customs, or values. Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons.
Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.
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- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; 1 edition (April 29, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0674034929
- ISBN-13: 978-0674034921
- Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 5.3 x 8 inches
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I bought this book for research purposes for my final college paper. It was so helpful and interesting to read that I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in southern history and motherhood. It was an extremely well written book. I'm a history major and it's more common that I find books that are dry and hard to read, but this book is far from that. I found it to be quite enjoyable.
By SuperDuperBrit
I have not seen many books about the woman's experience as a slave and a mother. This book is highly disturbing but contains the clues to why African American women today are having so many fertility and womb problems. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject.
By Makeda V. Benjamin
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