As White points out, a woman's gender endowed her with the exclusive opportunity to feign illness or pregnancy, thereby evading desired productive quotas typically expected of her. ... " 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. ... While it is nearly impossible to gauge whether the use of cotton root had a significant impact on birth rate from the evidence provided in Perrin's work, it is clear that women avoid...

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