Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

Doctoring Freedom For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for autonomy, and they devised strategies to retain at least some of that control. In "Doctoring Freedom,... Full description