... not mean that slave women were deprived of other strategies to resist their masters. 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. "In an age when women's diseases were still shrouded in mystery, getting the maximum amount of work from [slave] women ... game that few white slave owners wanted to play or could afford to lose." Because there were limited objective measures readily available to verify health complaints and claims of pregnancy, it was very c...

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