Slavery

Slavery

Enslaved Mothers Forced to Breastfeed Their Enslavers' Babies

 

"Why did these white women want black women to nurse their children? One complained “she felt like continuously having children and continuously nursing her children made her  [Jane Petigru ]  ‘a slave’ to her children—that’s an actual quote,  [writer Stephanie E.] Jones-Rogers says." Read More and Also Here

Breastfeeding Mãe Preta

                 Mãe Preta, 1912 by Lucílio de Albuquerque [Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons]

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