ABSTRACT

Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South.

chapter 1|14 pages

Why an Archaeology of Mothering?

chapter 2|39 pages

The Perryman Family of Mobile

chapter 3|24 pages

African-American Mothering and Enslavement

chapter 5|28 pages

Midwifery as Mother’s Work

chapter 6|29 pages

To Mother or Not to Mother

chapter 7|31 pages

Midwifery and Scientific Mothering