Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of t

By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reint

In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding concepti

Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.