Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

by Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674034929
• ISBN13: 9780674034921
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"