Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition
by
Katherine Paugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown labor force would end the need for the Atlantic...