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4. “Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good”: Struggles over Maternal Health Care
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Sasha Turner
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction: Transforming Bodies 1
- 1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition 18
- 2. “The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed”: The Quest for Biological Reproduction 44
- 3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment 68
- 4. “Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good”: Struggles over Maternal Health Care 112
- 5. “Dead Before the Ninth Day”: Struggles over Neonatal Care 151
- 6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children’s Survival 182
- 7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood 211
- Conclusion: Transforming Slavery 249
- Notes 257
- Sources 299
- Index 307
- Acknowledgments 313
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction: Transforming Bodies 1
- 1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition 18
- 2. “The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed”: The Quest for Biological Reproduction 44
- 3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment 68
- 4. “Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good”: Struggles over Maternal Health Care 112
- 5. “Dead Before the Ninth Day”: Struggles over Neonatal Care 151
- 6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children’s Survival 182
- 7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood 211
- Conclusion: Transforming Slavery 249
- Notes 257
- Sources 299
- Index 307
- Acknowledgments 313
