It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Contested Bodies by Sasha Turner
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It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters,...
Contested Bodies by Sasha Turner is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.
This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Contested Bodies aloud.
Contested Bodies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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