Reproduction and gender in new world slavery ann laura stoler, carnal knowledge and imperial power e note. Laboring women reproduction and gender in new world slavery early american studies jennifer l morgan books download as pdf. Laboring women reproduction and gender in new world slavery. Yet, whereas black pregnant people and mothers are made into culprits and the initiators of their deaths, doctors, nurses, and the hospitals they run are not. Morgan argues that as slaveowners contemplated women s reproductive potential with greed and opportunism, they utilized both outrageous images and callously indifferent strategies to ultimately inscribe enslaved women as racially and culturally different while. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery, university of penn.
Reproduction and gender in new world slavery early american studies by jennifer l. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery philadelphia, 2004. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery sandra greene, gender, ethnicity, and social change on the upper slave coast. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery, the journal of african american history 90, no. Morgan teaches history and womens and gender studies at rutgers university, new brunswick. Download peak how to master almost anything k anders. The journal of african american history vol 90, no 4. A history of the anloewe nwando achebe, farmers, traders, warriors, and kings. Pdf ostfriesenblut kriminalroman ann kathrin klaasen ermittelt 2 german edition edition by klauspeter wolf mystery thriller suspense ebooks.
The strange adventures of andrew battell download ebook. Request pdf on apr 1, 2005, barbara bush and others published jennifer l. Materializing the fetal body, or, what are those corpses doing in biologys basement. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery, jennifer lyle morgan. Morgan argues that as slaveowners contemplated womens reproductive potential with greed and opportunism, they utilized both outrageous images and callously indifferent strategies to ultimately inscribe enslaved women as racially and culturally different while creating an economic and moral environment in which. Laboring women s focus is significantly more narrow than its subtitle, reproduction and gender in new world slavery, suggests. Partus sequitur ventrem law, race, and reproduction in. 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 mothers master. Iiii professor of social and cultural analysis, history at nyu duke. Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in in the black atlantic world.
She then moves to a harrowing depiction of the operation itself. Morgan examines for the first time how african in laboring women. Slavery, gender, capitalism in the early modern world. They were of practical value, laboring in large numbers not only to cultivate crops but also to perpetuate the slave population that brought prosperity to british. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery philadelphia university of pennsylvania press, 2004.
See also morgan, some could suckle over their shoulder. Gender and agricultural labor in the atlantic world. Web scraping, screen scraping, web data mining, data extractor. Women s transition from slavery to freedom in south carolina urbana, leflouriagraduate seminar on women and slavery, fall 20. She first focuses on the ways in which slavery was rationalized in europe.
Reproduction and gender in new world slavery by jennifer l. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery philadelphia. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery was morgans first major work. Metropolitan studies at new york university is part of the department of social and cultural analysis sca. The first two centuries of slavery in north america cambridge. Wage labor, slavery, and survival in early baltimore studies in early american. Laboring womens focus is significantly more narrow than its subtitle, reproduction and gender in new world slavery, suggests. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery, jennifer l.
Beginning with the ideological foundations of racial slavery in early modern europe, laboring women traverses the atlantic, exploring the social. Pdf download laboring women reproduction and gender in new world slavery early american studies pdf online. Morgan argues that as slaveowners contemplated womens reproductive potential with greed and opportunism, they utilized both outrageous images and callously indifferent strategies to ultimately inscribe enslaved women as racially and culturally different while creating an economic and moral. Morgan examines for the first time how african womens labor in both senses became intertwined in the english colonies. She was brought to trial on april 18, 1787 for the murder of her infant daughter, found guilty, and sentenced to death. Morgan observes in her study of slavery and gender in the english colonies of the west indies. Laboring women reproduction and gender in new world slavery jennifer l. When black women were brought from africa to the new world asslave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to workas well as their potential to be. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Reproduction and creolization among enslaved women. Alice clifton was an enslaved africanamerican woman owned by john bartholomew in philadelphia. Download pdf save cite this item list of illustrations. Relying on her education as an atlantic slave trade historian, morgan charts the history of women in the slave trade.
Histories of race and sex in america university of illinois press, 2016. Morgan argues that as slaveowners contemplated womens reproductive potential with greed and opportunism, they utilized both outrageous images and callously indifferent strategies to ultimately inscribe enslaved women as racially and culturally different while. Gender and reproduction in the making of new world slavery university of pennsylvania press, 2004 and the coeditor of connexions. Black pregnant women and nongender binary folks are told their fatness, advanced age, dietary choices, and lack of prenatal care have increased their chances of dying during childbirth. Morgan examines for the first time how african womens labor in. Dec 19, 2018 laboring women reproduction and gender in new world slavery early american studies jennifer l morgan books download as pdf. Materializing the fetal body, or, what are those corpses doing in. Presenting a highly original, theoretically grounded view of reproduction and labor as the twin pillars of female exploitation in slavery, laboring women is a distinctive contribution to the literature of slavery and the history of women. Morgan examines for the first time how african womens labor in both. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content. Indeed, the books primary focus is on the north american mainland colonies, and particularly south carolina.
Reproduction and gender in new world slavery 2004 10. African women used certain herbs and infusions for contraceptive purposes. The trial established court precedent in the new england colonies for how juries ruled on murder cases that involved the slave owner murdering an enslaved individual. Female power and authority in northern igboland, 19001960. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery philadelphia, 2004, 2736 quotation on 33. Following the sentence, a mob formed in order to prevent her execution out of protest for unjust circumstances because she was coerced into killing her. Women in african history, fall 2011 women in african history.
Apart from a few references to the french caribbean, there is no discussion of nonanglophone parts of the americas. Morgan examines for the first time how african women s labor in both senses became intertwined in the english colonies. Beginning with the ideological foundations of racial slavery in early modern europe, laboring women traverses the atlantic. Laboring women traverses the atlantic, exploring the social and cultural lives of women in west.
Male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology, 15001770. Morgan argues that slaveholders in the early english atlantic world were acutely conscious of womens reproductive potential, and that this fact. Indian marriage in early new england 2002 essays 2. Together with africana studies, asianpacificamerican studies, latino studies, metropolitan studies. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery philadelphia, pa. Reproduction and gender in new world slavery early american studies laboring women. Request the article directly from the author on researchgate.
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