... the exclusive opportunity to feign illness or pregnancy, thereby evading desired productive quotas typically expected of her. "In an age when women's diseases were still shrouded in mystery, getting the maximum amount of work from [slave] women of childbearing age while remaining confident that no damage was done to her reproductive organs was a guessing game that few white slave owners wanted ... ...

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