HISTORY 21B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Atlantic Slave Trade, Civilizing Mission
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In the era of industrialization the word "labor" came to describe the process of giving birth as well as the work men and women do in creating products for the market (martin 66). The predominant metaphor of pregnancy was that the uterus is a machine, the woman is the laborer who produces the baby, and the doctor is given the role of supervisor or foreman (63). The woman"s body is treated as a machine and as a laborer, and therefore there is an emphasis on increasing. Gave women a new way to support their families. From the time of the beginning of the atlantic slave trade to even today, there has been a stigma associated with that of the darker skin. This division of the colors, black and white, have caused much torment for the. In america for example,article i, section 2, of the u. s. constitution of 1787-- the.
