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Birthing a slave
motherhood and medicine in the antebellum South / Marie Jenkins Schwartz
By Schwartz, Marie Jenkins
- ISBN
- 978-0-67402-202-7
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 22, 2006
This remarkably researched and thorough book on pregnancy and childbirth among enslaved African-Americans demonstrates how the most personal and intimate aspects of slaves' lives were fraught with politics and power. Schwartz, whose previous work Born in Bondage explored the lives of children under slavery, draws upon medical records, journals, letters, and WPA interviews to rec...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
