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“I Was Their Midwife”: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood on Seventeenth-Century Slave Ships
August 28 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
FREE“I was their midwife”: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood on Seventeenth-Century Slave Ships
By Dr. Andrea Mosterman
August 28th at 12PM
VIRTUAL; FREE
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Ships are usually seen as masculine spaces, and slave ships are no exception. But as the slave voyages database shows, about a fourth of the captives transported on board seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch slavers were in fact women. In this presentation, I explore the experiences of women on board these slavers, paying special attention to pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in these spaces.
“Yo Fui su Partera”: Embarazo, parto y maternidad en barcos de esclavos del siglo XVII.
Por la Dra. Andrea Mosterman
28 de agosto a las 12PM
VIRTUAL VÍA ZOOM
Los barcos son usualmente vistos como espacios masculinos y los botes que transportaban esclavos no eran la excepción. Pero las bases de datos de esclavizadores holandeses de los siglos XVII y XVIII demuestran que un cuarto de todos los esclavos transportados eran mujeres. En esta presentación exploro las experiencias de estas mujeres a bordo de estas naves, prestando atención especial al embarazo, parto y maternidad en estos espacios.