Motherhood, childlessness and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies

Contents

Introduction / Camillia Cowling, Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado, Diana Paton and Emily West -- The nameless and the forgotten: maternal grief, sacred protection, and the archive of slavery / Sasha Turner -- Maternal struggles and the politics of childlessness under pronatalist Caribbean slavery / Diana Paton -- Bad breeders and monstrosities: racializing childlessness and congenital disabilities in slavery and freedom / Jenifer L. Barclay -- 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 -- Between two Beneditos: enslaved wet-nurses amid slavery's decline in southeast Brazil / Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado -- '[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 -- Fertility control, shared nurturing, and dual exploitation: the lives of enslaved mothers in the antebellum United States / Emily West and Erin Shearer -- Black nannies: hidden and open images in the paintings of Nicolas-Antoine Taunay / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz -- 'By her unnatural and despicable conduct': motherhood and concubinage in the Watchman and Jamaica Free Press, 1830-1833 / Meleisa One-George -- Conceived in violence: enslaved mothers and children born of rape in nineteenth century Louisiana / Andrea Livesey -- Mistress, motherhood, and maternal exploitation in the antebellum south / R.J. Knight -- African mothers in the city of Bahia, 1734-99 / Carlos Eugênio Líbano Soares and Raíza Cristina Canuta de Hora -- The African women of the Dos Hermanos slave ship in Cuba: slaves, first, mothers second / Aisnara Perera Díaz and María de los Ángeles Meriño Fuentes -- Gendered geographies: motherhood, slavery, law, and space in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba / Camillia Cowling -- Mothering slaves, labor, and the persistence of slavery in northeast Brazil: a non-plantation view from the hinterlands of Ceará, 1813-1884 / Martha S. Santos -- Midwifery and childbirth among enslaved and freed women in Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the nineteenth century / Tâni Pimenta -- Pregnant slaves, workers in labour: amid doctors and masters in slave-owning city (nineteenth century Rio de Janeiro) / Lorena Féres da Silva Telles -- US slavery, civil war, and the emancipation of enslaved mothers / Leslie A. Schwalm -- Bad mothers, labouring children: emancipation, tutelage and motherhood in São Paulo in the last decades of the nineteenth century / Marília Bueno de Araújo Ariza -- In pursuit of autonomous womanhood: nineteenth-century black motherhood in the U.S. north / Crystal Lynn Webster -- From free womb to criminalized woman: fertility control in Brazilian slavery and freedom / Cassia Roth.