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Author Paugh, Katherine

Title The Politics of Reproduction : Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition / Katherine Paugh
Published Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Series The Past and Present Book Series
Past & present book series.
Contents Cover; The Politics of Reproduction; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Introduction; Capitalism, Slavery, and Reproduction; Abolitionist Mentalities and The Politics of Knowledge; Afro-Caribbean Women, Reproductive Agency, and The Promise of Microhistory; 1: ""The Old Settlers Have Bred a Great Quantity of Slaves"": Slavery, Reproduction, and Revolution, 1763-97; The American Revolution as a crisis in reproduction; Comparative Demography and Comparative Abolitionism in the Era of the American Revolution
Fears of Overpopulation in Early AbolitionismThe American Revolution and the demographic crisis in the British Caribbean; Imagining fertility after the American war; Abolitionism and the Politics of Childbearing during the Era of the Haitian Revolution; 2: The Curious Case of Mary Hylas: Wives, Slaves, and the Limits of British Abolitionism; The Curious Case of Mary Hylas; The Somerset Case and The Problem of Gender; Slavery, Marriage, and The Limits of British Abolitionism; Mary Hylas, Metropolitan Reformers, and The Racial Purity of Reproduction
3: Conceiving Fertility in the Age of Abolition: Slavery, Sexuality, and the Politics of Medical KnowledgeAbolitionists, Man-Midwives, and The Politics of Medical Knowledge in Great Britain; Medical Knowledge and The Management of Childbirth in The Age of Abolition; Matthew Lewis and His Mothers; Race, Venereal Disease, and Infertility; 4: A West Indian MidwifeĊ› Tale: The Politics of Childbirth on Newton Plantation; Race, Class, and Midwifery at Newton Plantation; The American War, Midwifery, and Plantation Hierarchies at Newton
Elite Afro-Caribbeans, Poor Whites, and Pronatalist Planters During the Era of the Haitian Revolution5: ""An Increasing Capital in an Increasing Gang"": Governing Reproduction, 1798-1838; Overproduction and Reproduction In 1807; The Politics of Demographic Information and The Abolition of The Atlantic Slave Trade; Counting Slaves and Counting Coppers After 1807; Registration and Rebellion In Barbados; Moral Reform and The New Regime of Reproductive Labor After 1823; The Politics of Childbearing During The Age of Abolition; 6: Missionaries, Madams, and Mothers in Barbados
Free Women of Color and Concubinage in the Urban CaribbeanMethodist Missionaries and Sexual Economies in the Era of Amelioration; Anglican Bishops and Afro-Barbadian Mothers on Codrington Plantation; Afterword; Bibliography; Manuscripts and Archival Materials; Barbados; Barbados National Archives; University of the West Indies, Cave Hill; United Kingdom; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Senate House Library, University of London; British Library; British National Archives; Rhodes House Library, Oxford University; University of Edinburgh; York Minster Library
Summary In the age of abolition, British politicians, slave owners, doctors, and missionaries were promoting motherhood among women working on Caribbean plantations, as a way to sustain the labor force in the absence of new African recruits. Paugh recounts the story of a Barbadian midwife to explore how this effort was experienced by Afro-Caribbean women
Notes United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women, Black -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 18th century
Women, Black -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 19th century
Labor demand -- Caribbean Area -- History
Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- 18th century
Fertility.
Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
Fertility
Women -- history
Black People -- history
Enslavement -- ethics
Colonialism -- history
Reproductive Behavior -- ethnology
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Medicine
Fertility
British colonies
Labor demand
Population
Slavery
Women, Black
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Population -- History
Caribbean Region -- ethnology
United Kingdom
Subject Caribbean Area
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0192506986
9780192506986
9780191831478
0191831476
9780198789789
0198789785