Racialized Motherhood

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DFF-funded project documenting and analyzing early modern discourses about women's reproductive roles in the Atlantic World @ucph.bsky.social Website: https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/history/racialised-motherhood/

Book twenty-five out of thirty-two with titles of the documents in Miscelanea. The book has a red fabric binding and the edge of a typewritten document can be seen protruding from the side. It rests on a tabletop made of dark varnished wood.
Ida stands outside the Cuban National Archives (Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba). She is wearing a blue t-shirt and a red hoodie. The gates of the archives are closed and the entrance to the building can be seen. The building is made of pale yellow stone and the entrance is flanked by columns.
Front page with decorative border. Wolter Robert van Hoëvell, De emancipatie der slaven in Neerlands-Indië: eene verhandeling (C. M. von Bolhuis Hoitsema, 1848). https://www.google.nl/books/edition/De_emancipatie_der_slaven_in_Neerlands_I/8jwsAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Fugitive advertisement from newspaper 'The Quebec Gazette' dated 8th March 1787, available from https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4267091
A white woman in black leaning against a plinth with a white urn. She holds the hand of a little white girl, also dressed in black, whose doll has fallen to the floor (Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1809, Philadelphia Museum of Art, https://archive.org/details/repositoryofarts21809acke/page/n237/mode/2up).
Ida stands in front of her PowerPoint presentation, which is currently on a slide about Dutch bills in the East Indies. She is wearing a pink jacket and a white conference nametag, and she looks up at the slide while she talks.
"Run away from the Subscriber about 20 days ago, A Small, slender made, negro woman named Juliana Sophia, has a mark on the left ancle, and is far advanced in pregnancy. If she returns in eight days she will be forgiven; if not, she will be given over to Justice; no person must harbour her, or they must abide by the consequences of the Law. A reward of one Joe will be given to any person who will take and deliver her to REBECCA STALLARD. 3d Feb. 1804." DANSK VESTINDISK REGIERINGS AVIS, 1804-02-07, available from Mediestream.
Professor Lise Jaillant presents her paper entitled "AI to Unlock Archives: Revolutionising Access to our Digital Past."