Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

by Marie Jenkins Schwartz

401 pages· 2006· ISBN 9780674022027
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Depicting the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers, this book focuses on the health care of enslaved women.

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