Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney explores the story of forced reproduction in the antebellum South and reveals the agency of Mary Gaffney, an enslaved woman who takes control of her body and fertility.
Direction
Habtezghi lets silence and archival gaps speak volumes.
Writing
Reclaims narrative from plantation records—brutal and beautiful.
Director
Nazenet Habtezghi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tera Hunter, featured historian, literally wrote the book on Black women's resistance to reproduction under slavery—'Bound in Wedlock.'
The title deliberately echoes D.W. Griffith's racist epic to reclaim what 'birthing a nation' actually meant: enslaved women's forced labor, not white savior myths.
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