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Breeding a Nation: Reproductive Slavery, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Breeding a Nation Reproductive Slavery the Thirteenth Amendment and the Pursuit of Freedom
Author: Pamela D. Bridgewater
Law professor and activist Pamela D. Bridgewater argues that the lawmakers who wrote the Thirteenth Amendment with the intent of ending slavery understood that human breeding—forcing women to have babies—was a central element of slavery. Knowing that it was politically dangerous to name reproductive slavery in the amendment, they framed the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780896087781
ISBN-10: 0896087786
Publication Date: 7/1/2009
Pages: 220
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Publisher: South End Press
Book Type: Paperback
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