Description
Invested in the success of the "great experiment" of slave emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare and health policies. Concerns about the health and size of ex-slave populations were expressed throughout the colonial world during this period. In the Caribbean, an emergent black middle class, rapidly increasing immigration, and new attitudes toward medicine and society were crucial factors. While hemispheric and diasporic trends influenced the new policies, De Barros shows that local physicians, philanthropists, midwives, and the impoverished mothers who were the targets of this official concern helped shape and implement efforts to ensure the health and reproduction of Caribbean populations in the decades before independence.
About the Author
Juanita De Barros is associate professor of history at McMaster University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469616056
Author Juanita De Barros
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press