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Book Review


Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. By Marie Jenkins Schwartz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 401 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-02202-5.)
Some of the best research in the continuing study of American slavery is taking place in the fields of health and medicine, as attested by a growing body of well-received works. Marie Jenkins Schwartz's Birthing a Slave is the latest addition to those fields. Through the lens of reproductive medicine Schwartz sheds valuable new light on the southern slave system. A concluding chapter explores freedom's meaning for freedwomen's health. . . .
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