... use of contraceptives were also forms of resistance among enslaved women. In his article "Resisting Reproduction", Liese M. Perrin discusses the use of the cotton root as a form of birth-control among the slaves. He states that slave women recognized their child-bearing capacity as a source of extra capital and were so opposed to this function that they would take ... necessary measures to avoid conception. 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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