[Poscgrad] Social Sciences Lab Talk on Nov 17, 2:00-3:30pm: Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE)

[Social Sciences Laboratory]

Dear Social Science Community,

We’re excited to invite you to our next SSL talk! Please join us on *Tuesday,
November 17*, for a presentation by Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE), who will
present her research titled *“The Market for Milk: A Dataset on Enslaved
Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.”* Coffee and
snacks will be provided, and we hope you can join us for an engaging
discussion and a chance to connect with colleagues!

*🗓️ Date and Time: *Tuesday, November 17, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
*📍 Location:* INTS 1113 & Zoom
<https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92196753205?pwd=auP54FYOPA67dst9GhD0oSLBMo0csy.1>
(Meeting ID: 921 9675 3205)
*🎤 Speaker: *Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE)
*📝 Registration:* Please register here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwdKnJ28itvD0wtCiHMjnVSZ6z3YBpW2hxXkVFxamjenld-g/viewform?usp=header>
by the morning of Thursday, November 6, so we can finalize the headcount.

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*Title: *The Market for Milk: A Dataset on Enslaved Wet Nurses in
Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*Abstract: *Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other
slave-owning society in the Americas (over 5 million), and it was the last
country in the western hemisphere to abolish the institution (in 1888).
Whereas many enslaved persons toiled on plantations and in mines, urban
slavery was also prominent, with enslaved men carrying coffee through the
streets and enslaved women washing clothes. One gendered aspect of urban
slavery in 19th-century Brazil included enslavers renting out enslaved
women as wet nurses to breastfeed the children of non-slave families. This
presentation examines the reproductive and productive labor trends of a
unique dataset of wet-nursing advertisements (n≈16,000) for 19th-century
Rio de Janeiro that I extracted from newspapers as part of a
book-in-progress about the impact of enslaved women’s reproductive
practices on the abolition of slavery in 19th-century Brazil. After
presenting trends in the data, I consider the ethical dilemmas of the
practice of enslaved wet nursing, which often resulted in the violent
separation of mother and child.

We hope to see you there!

Social Sciences Lab
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