It is no surprise then that the study of the most marginalized group to date, black enslaved women, had little to no influence in informing historical perspectives on slavery for many years. ... In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. ... " Because there were limited objective measures readily available to verify health complaints and claims of pregnancy, it was very common for a slave women to use the aforementioned excuses to reduce her workload. ... Over the course of the past forty years,...

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