1841 Receipt for Slave hired as a Midwife
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1841 Receipt for Slave hired as a midwife John Wooten paid Elizabeth Coleman $3.00 "for a certain Negro girl Penny as midwife August 5, 1941". The slave midwife was a very important member of the slave community. She was elevated in the slave hierarchy to a position just below that of the head overseer. She would deliver the babies of slaves, the plantation ownerÂ’s wife and other white women. She was also the root doctor among the slave quarters; maintaining the health of other slaves on the plantation.
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- 1841
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