Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica E. R. Chamberlin Truman speaks clearly in his

Truman speaks clearly in his own inimitable voice

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elderly mathematician Magnus Ridolph doesn't look like the mercenary detective

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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica E. R. Chamberlin Truman speaks clearly in hisIt is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that