Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery by Jennifer L. Morgan

Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

Early American Studies

Jennifer L. Morgan

296 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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. In...

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