Newcastle University

Welcome

Chair: Maria Helena Machado, Universidade de São Paulo

Chair: Diana Paton, Newcastle University

• Sarah L. Franklin, Motherhood and Slavery in Cuba

• Angela Davis, Themes in British and European maternity care since 1700

• Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Slave mothers: hidden images in the paintings of Nicolas-Antoine Taunay

Panel Two: The Politics of Wetnursing

Chair: Selina Patel, Newcastle University

• Rebecca Winer, The Enslaved Wet-nurse as Nanny: Positing a transition from free to slave Labor in late medieval Spain

• Maria Helena Machado, Between Two Beneditos: Slave Wet-Nurses amid Slavery’s Decline in Southeast Brazil

• Emily West and Rosie Knight, Mother's Milk: enslaved wet-nursing in the US South

Keynote address

Chair: Emily West, University of Reading

• Jennifer Morgan, Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Considering Slave Law and Re/Production for Enslaved Women

Panel Three: Fertility, Population, and the Politics of Knowledge

Chair: Maria Helena Machado, Universidade de São Paulo

• Katherine Paugh, Conceiving Fertility in the Age of Abolition: Slavery, Sexuality, and the Politics of Knowledge

• Alexandra Cornelius, 'The Offspring No Longer Needs the Care of the Mother': Race, Labor and Social Scientific Constructions of Black Motherhood

• Mytheli Sreenivas, Recasting Motherhood in the Era of Population Control: Examples from Postcolonial India

Panel Four: Medicine and Motherhood

Chair: Rosie Knight, University of Reading

• Lorena Silva Telles, Slave women, breastfeeding and motherhood in nineteenth-century Brazil

• Stephen Kenny, “Infantile therapeutics” in the slave South: an emerging field of medical research

• Sasha Turner, “Hot and cold baths [are] necessary to keep patients clean”: Cleanliness and the Health and Culture of Slave Mothers and Infants in Jamaica

Round table discussion

Opening remarks from Diana Paton and Camillia Cowling