Slavery & Abolition, Volume 38, Issue 2 (2017)

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Mothering Slaves: Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies

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Mothering slaves: comparative perspectives on motherhood, childlessness, and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Camillia Cowling, Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado, Diana Paton & Emily West
Pages: 223-231
Published online: 25 May 2017
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Part 1: Mothers, Masters and the State: Motherhood and Reproduction under Slavery and Freedom

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The nameless and the forgotten: maternal grief, sacred protection, and the archive of slavery
Sasha Turner
Pages: 232-250
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Maternal struggles and the politics of childlessness under pronatalist Caribbean slavery
Diana Paton
Pages: 251-268
Published online: 04 May 2017
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From free womb to criminalized woman: fertility control in Brazilian slavery and freedom
Cassia Roth
Pages: 269-286
Published online: 21 Apr 2017
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Bad breeders and monstrosities: racializing childlessness and congenital disabilities in slavery and freedom
Jenifer L. Barclay
Pages: 287-302
Published online: 16 May 2017
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Part 2: Wet Nannies and the Politics of Wetnursing

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The enslaved wet nurse as nanny: the transition from free to slave labor in childcare in Barcelona after the Black Death (1348)
Rebecca Lynn Winer
Pages: 303-319
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Between two Beneditos: enslaved wet-nurses amid slavery’s decline in southeast Brazil
Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado
Pages: 320-336
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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‘[S]he could … spare one ample breast for the profit of her owner’: white mothers and enslaved wet nurses’ invisible labor in American slave markets
Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Pages: 337-355
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Part 3: Sexuality, Respectability, and Sexual Violence

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‘By her unnatural and despicable conduct’: motherhood and concubinage in the Watchman and Jamaica Free Press, 1830–1833
Meleisa Ono-George
Pages: 356-372
Published online: 21 Apr 2017
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Conceived in violence: enslaved mothers and children born of rape in nineteenth-century Louisiana
Andrea Livesey
Pages: 373-391
Published online: 21 Apr 2017
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Part 4: Motherhood under Emancipation

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US slavery, civil war, and the emancipation of enslaved mothers
Leslie A. Schwalm
Pages: 392-407
Published online: 20 Apr 2017
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Bad mothers, labouring children: emancipation, tutelage and motherhood in São Paulo in the last decades of the nineteenth century
Marília Bueno de Araújo Ariza
Pages: 408-424
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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In pursuit of autonomous womanhood: nineteenth-century black motherhood in the U.S. North
Crystal Lynn Webster
Pages: 425-440
Published online: 05 May 2017
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