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 hardcover 2006

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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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