To understand how the joyous occasion of motherhood was a form of suffering for black female slave, please read this excellent post on "the book Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. The book tells the history of a somewhat esoteric subject: the need of slaveholders, and the … Continue reading Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era →