Reproductive Resistance in the Antebellum South – Scalawag

Reproductive Resistance in the Antebellum South – Scalawag

Black women were distinctly aware of their location in the plantation economy. And with this awareness, they often deployed surreptitious methods to affirm their reproductive autonomy and resist the dominance of their enslavers and the doctors who stood to profit through the harm infected on Black women's bodies. Read more via Scalawag: Reproductive Resistance in the Antebellum South.