Wednesday, April 17 2024, 12pm A virtual event Dr. Cassia Roth, Associate Professor in History and LACSI joint-appointment faculty at the University of Georgia will present her research on advertisements for enslaved wet nurses in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using newspaper sources. Register to attend via Zoom, https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Og2jksduRECqhxUH4xX-ng The event is organized by The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. ..................... This presentation looks at advertisements for enslaved wet nurses in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It analyzes an original dataset of advertisements in the city’s main commercial newspaper, the Jornal do Commercio, from 1827 (its first year of publication) to 1888 (final abolition). In it, I argue that enslaved wet nurses had to deny the physical and social reproductive needs of their own families to satisfy those of their owners,’ thus engaging in what I term “disembodied reproduction.” Enslaved wet nurses are examples of the productive-reproductive paradigm that defines Atlantic World slavery.
