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Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery »

Authors: Jennifer L. Morgan
ISBN-13: 9780812218732, ISBN-10: 0812218736
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Jennifer L. Morgan teaches history and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified—and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves.

	List of Illustrations
	Note on Sources
	Introduction
1	"Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder" : Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology	12
2	"The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe" : The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles	50
3	"The Breedings Shall Goe with Theri Mothers" : Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies	69
4	"Hannah and Hir Children" : Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women	107
5	"Women's Sweat" : Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World	144
6	"Deluders and Seducers of Each Other" : Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance	166
	Epilogue	196
	Notes	203
	Bibliography	251
	Index	273
	Acknowledgments	277