Birthing a Slave

Author: Marie Jenkins Schwartz
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0674022025

Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. Get Birthing a Slave diet books 2013 for free.
We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage. In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infe Check Birthing a Slave our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infe

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