The Politics of Reproduction
Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 April 2017
- ISBN 9780198789789
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 240x176x24 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white images 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown labor force would end the need for the Atlantic slave trade. By establishing the ubiquity of visions of fertility and subsequent economic growth during this time, The Politics of Reproduction sheds fresh light on the oft-debated question of whether abolitionism was understood by contemporaries as economically beneficial to the plantation colonies. At the same time, Katherine Paugh makes novel assertions about the importance of Britain's Caribbean colonies in the emergence of population as a political problem. The need to manipulate the labor market on Caribbean plantations led to the creation of new governmental strategies for managing sex and childbearing, such as centralized nurseries, discouragement of extended breastfeeding, and financial incentives for childbearing, that have become commonplace in our modern world. While assessing the politics of reproduction in the British Empire and its Caribbean colonies in relationship to major political events such as the Haitian Revolution, the study also focuses in on the island of Barbados. The remarkable story of an enslaved midwife and her family illustrates how plantation management policies designed to promote fertility affected Afro-Caribbean women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Politics of Reproduction draws on a wide variety of sources, including debates in the British Parliament and the Barbados House of Assembly, the records of Barbadian plantations, tracts about plantation management published by doctors and plantation owners, and missionary records related to the island of Barbados.
This is an important book that should be read by students and scholars interested in the history of slavery and abolition, British imperial history, and Caribbean/Atlantic history, and women's history... summing up: Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
'The Old Settlers Have Bred a Great Quantity of Slaves': Slavery, Reproduction, and Revolution, 1763-1797
The Curious Case of Mary Hylas: Wives, Slaves, and the Limits of British Abolitionism
Conceiving Fertility in the Age of Abolition: Slavery, Sexuality, and the Politics of Medical Knowledge
A West Indian Midwife's Tale: The Politics of Childbirth on Newton Plantation
'An Increasing Capital in an Increasing Gang': Governing Reproduction, 1798-1838
Missionaries, Madams, and Mothers in Barbados
Afterword
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