Let's Talk About Sex... History! (Receipts #2) (Patreon)

You might have seen that a clip from the latest episode of #LetsTalkAboutSexHistory went viral and caused some controversy. A lot of people were eager to call me a liar or manipulator of facts, but as you know, I'VE GOT THE RECEIPTS! 

Be sure to watch the full episode, titled Contraception, Abortion, and Racial Genocide.  

If you want to watch a short documentary called "When Abortion Was Illegal", click here! 

Also attached is a downloadable .pdf of On Slaveholders' Sexual Abuse of Slaves, which contains a few narratives on forced motherhood and breeding. 

Books

A few of these books will be repeatedly referenced during the course of this webseries!

Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (John D'Emilio + Estelle B. Freedman)

Documenting Intimate Matters (Thomas A. Foster)

Black Women In White America (Edited by Gerda Lerner)

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Dorothy Roberts) 

Black Sexual Politics (Patricia Hill Collins)

The Black woman; An anthology (Toni Cade Bambara)

Women, Race, and Class (Angela Davis)

Twentieth Century Sexuality: A History (Angus McLaren)

Pregnancy and Power (Rickie Solinger) [You can read chapter one for free here]

Scholarly Articles & Studies

Some of these are available for free, and are linked. The rest can be found on JSTOR.

Legal Abortion: Are American Black Women Healthier Because of It? (Willard Cates, Jr.)

Differences in the Determinants of Support for Legalized Abortion (Karen Dugger) 

Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America (Nicola Beisel and Tamara Kay)

The Abortion Attitudes of Black Women: 1972-1991 (John Lynxwiler and David Gay)

Mainstream Articles

What Abortion Was Like in the 19th Century (Kate Manning)

The Father of American Gynecology Fought to Criminalize Abortion in the 1850s (Nina Renata Aron)

From Commmonplace to Controversial: The Different Histories of Abortion in Europe and the United States (Anna M. Peterson)

Why A Pro-Life World Has A Lot of Dead Women In It (Jennifer Wright)

5 Ways Texas’ Draconian Abortion Laws Actively Hurt Women (Catherine Pearson) 

Abortion in American History (Katha Pollitt)

Scarlet Letters: Getting the History of Abortion and Contraception Right (Ranana Dine)

Vintage Magazine Articles

I suggest reading through these so you can get a feel for black attitudes towards family planning with the language and urgency of the time!

Birth Control and the Negro Woman (1968)

How Safe Are Birth Control Pills? (1962)

A Fighter for Right to Life  (1978)

Dick Gregory's "My Answer to Genocide" (1971)