Birthing a Slave

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Birthing a Slave is written by Marie Jenkins Schwartz and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 067426715X (ISBN 10) and 9780674267152 (ISBN 13).

This book depicts competing approaches to reproductive health on plantations in the antebellum South, as black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers. The first book to focus solely on the health care of enslaved women, it argues for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.