Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica by Sasha Turner

Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

Sasha Turner

328 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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It 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 thi...

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