Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South by Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

401 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than eve...

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