Do you have any information on Black Midwives?
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The history of midwives and midwifery is an interesting one. Below are some online and archival resources to help you with your research interest.
Archival Collections at the Avery Research Center (to view these collections, make an appointment at the Avery Research Center)
- Dr. Elizabeth M. Bear collection, AMN 1134. Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. https://findingaids.library.cofc.edu/repositories/3/resources/49 Accessed April 09, 2021.
- Carr Family Papers, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA. https://findingaids.library.cofc.edu/repositories/3/resources/47 Accessed April 09, 2021.
Related Information
- A History of Midwifery in the United States The Midwife Said Fear Not Opens in new window
- South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 3 Opens in new window
- Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South Opens in new window
- Interview with Josephine Riley Matthews, who was an early midwife here in SC Opens in new window
- Maude Callen Clinic Opens in new window
- Catchin__babies_African_Ameri.pdf
- Healing_in_silence_Black_nurs.pdf
- A_study_of_African_American_la.pdf
- Sick_and_tired_of_being_sick_.pdf
- Birthing__Blackness__and_the_B.pdf
- midwife.pdf
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