Kapitel in diesem Buch

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