“In Chapter 1, I describe the exploitation of slave women’s capacity to produce more slaves and the denial of their rights as mothers. After Emancipation, racism continued to corrupt notions of reproductive liberty, helping to direct the birth control movement which emerged early in this century.”

“In Chapter 1, I describe the exploitation of slave women’s capacity to produce more slaves and the denial of their rights as mothers. After Emancipation, racism continued to corrupt notions of reproductive liberty, helping to direct the birth control movement which emerged early in this century.”

— Dorothy Roberts