... that black women of the antebellum period were burdened with. Since women were distinctively valued by slaveholders for their reproductive capacities, childcare and childbearing were inevitable responsibilities of the the female slave. Thus, motherhood gravely circumscribed their lives. This was illustrated by enslaved women's compromised ability to run away, where breastfeeding and general concern for her offspring greatly limited a mother's mobility ... . This is reflected in work which has examined the external perceptions they induced, the expectations they challenged, and the subseq...

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... figures of media attention such as Pauline Pearce, a 45-year-old woman who stood up to rioters and thereby earned the media soubriquet the Heroine of Hackney. The opposition of female, matriarchal and maternal peacekeeping with masculine, youthful aggression and violence is one which the media in Britain employed in its coverage of Pauline Pearce. This gendering of the riots emphasised ... ...

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