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
Mãe Preta, 1912 by Lucílio de Albuquerque [Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons]
Resources
- Black Breastfeeding after a History of Trauma, Health Connect One.org, posted on: August 30, 2018
- Black History | Wet Nursing
- Black Wet Nurses and The Negative Connotations That Surrounds Them
- Brazil Enslaved – NPR
- Breastfeeding – The History Engine
- "Breastfeeding Manual for Slaves ." Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources . . Encyclopedia.com. (December 10, 2019).
- Cleveland, Kimberly. 2019. Black women slaves who nourished a nation: artistic renderings of black wet nurses of Brazil. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press.
- Dize, Nathan. “Locating Enslaved Black Wet Nurses in the Literature of French Slavery,” Nursing Clio.org [Medicina/Medicine], May 31, 218.
- Freeman, Andrea. “Unmothering Black Women: Formula Feeding as an Incident of Slavery,” Hastings Law Journal, [Vol. 69:1545, pgs. 1545 – 1606. – [PDF]
- “From Breastfeeding To Beyoncé, 'Skimmed' Tells A New Story About Black Motherhood,” – NPR
- Hammond Manual (1857) – [PDF]
- Hilliard, Tera K. "A Black woman's commentary on breastfeeding." Breastfeeding Medicine 9, no. 7 (2014): 349-351.
- Hoban, Rose. “Distant Echoes of Slavery Affect Breast-feeding Attitudes of Black Women,” North Carolina Health News, March 3, 216.
- “How Black Women Were 'Skimmed' By Infant Formula Marketing,” – WBUR
- Johnson, Elizabeth Ofosuah. “The Disturbing History off Enslaved Mothers Forced to Breastfeed White Babies in the 1600s” Face 2 Face, August 20, 2018.
- Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. 2019. They were her property: white women as slave owners in the American South. New Haven Yale University Press.