Black women have been aborting themselves since the earliest days of slavery. Many slave women refused to bring children

Maja Staśko:

Black women have been aborting themselves since the earliest days of slavery. Many slave women refused to bring children into a world of interminable forced labor, where chains and floggings and sexual abuse for women were the everyday conditions of life. A doctor practicing in Georgia around the middle of the last century noticed that abortions and miscarriages were far more common among his slave patients than among the white women he treated. According to the physician, either Black women worked too hard or „…as the planters believe, the blacks are possessed of a secret by which they destroy the fetus at an early stage of gestation … All country practitioners are aware of the frequent complaints of planters (about the) … unnatural tendency in the African female to destroy her offspring”. Expressing shock that “… whole families of women fail to have any children,” this doctor never considered how “unnatural” it was to raise children under the slave system.

Angela Davis, Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights

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