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Birthing a Slave

Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

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ISBN 9780674034921

Publication Date: 03/30/2010

416 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Marie Jenkins Schwartz is Associate Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island.

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