TY - GEN N2 - In the age of abolition, British politicians, slave owners, doctors, and missionaries were promoting motherhood among women working on Caribbean plantations, as a way to sustain the labor force in the absence of new African recruits. Paugh recounts the story of a Barbadian midwife to explore how this effort was experienced by Afro-Caribbean women. AB - In the age of abolition, British politicians, slave owners, doctors, and missionaries were promoting motherhood among women working on Caribbean plantations, as a way to sustain the labor force in the absence of new African recruits. Paugh recounts the story of a Barbadian midwife to explore how this effort was experienced by Afro-Caribbean women. T1 - The politics of reproduction :race, medicine, and fertility in the age of abolition / AU - Paugh, Katherine, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - HQ1501 ID - 798704 KW - Women, Black KW - Women, Black KW - Labor demand KW - Slavery SN - 9780191831478 TI - The politics of reproduction :race, medicine, and fertility in the age of abolition / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198789789.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198789789.001.0001 ER -