Beschreibung:
How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified--and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves.
1. "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology2. "The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe": The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles3. "The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers": Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies4. "Hannah and Hir Children": Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women5. "Women's Sweat": Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World6. "Deluders and Seducers of Each Other": Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance