Forced BFG p.1 Slavery
Enslaved Mothers Forced to Breastfeed Their Enslavers' Babies
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Resources
- Liberty writers Africa. “How African Slave Mothers Were Forced to Breastfeed White Babies, After Childbirth,” Liberty writers Africa, March 4, 2019.
- Monumento Mãe Preta
- Newspaper Advertisements for Black Wet Nurses (1821-1854)
- One of the Greatest Atrocities During Slavery – Push Back Now
- Roth, Cassia. "Black nurse, white milk: Breastfeeding, slavery, and abolition in 19th-century Brazil." Journal of Human Lactation 34, no. 4 (2018): 804-809.
- Is Slavery Why Black Women Aren't Breastfeeding? – [PDF]
- West, E. and Knight, R. J. (2017) Mothers’ milk: slavery, wetnursing, and black and white women in the Antebellum South. Journal of Southern History, 83 (1). pp. 3768. – [PDF]