Article 5XNRX Alabama Artist Honors Enslaved Women Subjected to Medical Experimentation

Alabama Artist Honors Enslaved Women Subjected to Medical Experimentation

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Angela Johnson
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Medical experimentation on the bodies of Black women is among the many horrific atrocities of slavery. Enslaved women were forced to participate in painful procedures at the hands of white doctors without anesthesia because they were believed at the time to not experience pain in the same way whites did. But an...

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