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Rachael Pasierowska

Rachael Pasierowska is a PhD student at Rice University (USA) and has just completed a year at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil), as part of the dual doctoral degree programme. She is currently conducting dissertation research in Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses on the relations between slaves and animals in the Atlantic world, with a focus on the nineteenth-century slave societies of Brazil, Cuba, and the U.S. South.

Review: ‘Mothering Slaves: Motherhood, Childlessness, and the Care of Children from Slavery to Emancipation’

‘Mothering Slaves: Motherhood, Childlessness, and the Care of Children from Slavery to Emancipation’, University of Reading, 19-21 April 2016. Following events at the University of Newcastle and the Universidade de São Paulo, this third meeting of the Mothering Slaves Research Network sought to bring together experienced and new researchers, from a wide range of disciplines and several continents with a shared focus on the intersections of trans-Atlantic slavery and motherhood. The Atlantic framework encouraged scholars to think more comparatively about the concept and practice of motherhood within enslavement. The three-day conference adopted a fresh outlook to topics such as abortion, childcare, childhood, childlessness, infanticide, rape, and reproduction, to name but a few. Over the three-day period, scholars came together to share research into the lives of women, mothers, and children from across the Americas. While the great majority of papers looked to North America, predominantly the antebellum South, there was an […]