https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17226823/
by EC Halperin · 2007 · Cited by 195 — Slave owners sold the bodies of their deceased chattel to medical schools for anatomic dissection. Stories of the "night doctors" buying
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2013/april.htm
The skin of slavery-era black people was sometimes used as clothes. It is probably a urban legend.
https://theconversation.com/how-black-slaves-were-routinely-sold-as-specimens-to-ambitious-white-doctors-43074
Jun 11, 2015 — And the American South in the days of slavery was no different – and for those looking for easy targets, black slave bodies were easy to come by ...
https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/17/historian-uncovers-gynecologys-brutal-roots-in-slavery/
Feb 17, 2020 — Berkeley News: In your book, you uncover the ways in which the origins of American gynecology are intimately linked to slavery. Could you ...
https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/the-skeleton-in-the-basement
Though potentially fictional, their story illustrates how elite white men claimed authority over Black bodies beyond the institution of slavery. Contents.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26296837
by SC KENNY · 2013 · Cited by 51 — The body played a central role in American slavery.11 Slave owners regu- lated, utilized, and abused slave bodies. Slaves, in turn, resisted
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/08/medical-experimentation-slaves-18th-century-caribbean-colonies
Aug 10, 2017 — Under the master's careful eye, two slaves were given to the enslaved doctor for treatment and four to the European-trained surgeon. The outcome ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2014.931652
by DM Turner · 2014 · Cited by 4 — Evaluating the 'soundness' of slaves was a crucial aspect of the slave economy as many historians have noted, but constructions of the 'unsou
https://commonplace.online/article/enslaved-bodies-enslaved-selves/
Ultimately, enslaved women struggled to make medical choices “in a society that did not define control of one's body as a fundamental right of slaves” (3).
https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkaf085/8275979
by B Chizzolini · 2025 — Thereafter, the buyer had to examine all parts of the enslaved body ... Franco Angiolini, “Slaves and Slavery in the Early Modern Tuscany ...
http://earlham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/commodification-of-black-bodies-iman-cooper-spring-2015.pdf
by I COOPER · Cited by 35 — White slave owners executed their perceived right under the creation of commoditized black bodies to sexually abuse their slaves, producing mixed rac
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/horrors-slavery-1805
The descriptions of the slave trade and treatment of slaves are brought to life by seven strikingly vivid vignettes depicting slaves being whipped, sold, ...
https://yaleandslavery.yale.edu/
Names of the Enslaved Enslaved people were part of New Haven and ... The first part read: “The immediate emancipation of slaves in disregard of ...
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/historicalstudies/news/new-book-by-historian-daina-ramey-berry-analyzes-the-commodification-of-the-slave-body
Feb 10, 2017 — Enslaved bodies even retained a perverse “ghost value” after death, as owners illicitly sold their slaves' corpses to medical schools as ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/york-as-clark-s-body-servant.htm
Oct 16, 2019 — In 1784, an enslaved boy was assigned to be 14-year-old William Clark's personal “body servant.” Like many slaves, the boy didn't have a legal right to a last