"Many slave owners looked at black women’s bodies as a source of free labor and often forced relationships or raped en…"

"Margaret Garner, who was born as an enslaved girl, almost certainly did not plan to kill her child when she grew up a…"

"Herbal remedies to induce miscarriage were equally well known to enslaved women. Slaves often grew herbs and mixed th…"

"Black women have been aborting themselves since the earliest days of slavery. Many slave women refusing to bring chil…"

"Legend has popularized the image of the Caribbean as a woman compelled to suckle a snake all night long. This image o…"

"Throughout Antillean oral culture,” writes Maryse Conde in “La parole des femmes” (Women’s Word; 1979), “the mother i…"

"It is clear to see how deeply abortion bans are rooted in white supremacy and patriarchal strongholds when we look at…"

"Southern slaves were "the happiest, and, in some sense the freest people in the world," wrote George Fitzhugh, Virgin…"

"Claudia Tate has observed that for female slaves "motherhood was an institution to which they had only biological cla…"

"It is precisely through her flesh as both mother and slave woman that Harriet A. Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a…"