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[TW: racism, abuse, sexual abuse]

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J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. 

He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women. 

Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.

Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way. 

Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.

Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.

Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.

 

You guys should really google him. 

(if you click the link, I did it for you)

fucking hell I just nearly got sick.

tumblrs tuaght me so much 
I had NO IDEA how SO MANY THINGS we have in modern days was LITERALLY made at the expense of black women. The fact that they skip over this in things like biology classes and stuff like that is disgusting.

This is just

apalling 

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   It disgusts me whenever someone thinks that other humans aren’t, well, human. Will this disgust do anything whatsoever?...

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    Hm. A case of whether or not the ends justify the means, I suppose. Very touchy subject; not sure how I feel about it,...

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    I think I just got sick…

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    I bet most history books don’t mention this. He ranks right up there with the Nazi doctor experiments.

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    O-O reading about him and only white people would excuse what he did by saying “Oh well in his day black people weren’t...

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    TRIGGER WARNING: racism, sexism, human mutilation and experimentation

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    Things that have been done in the name of medicine are just awful. I took for granted that doctors were always looking...

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    Unf. My mother had some book in her shelf with passages of Sims’ experiments and I came across it when I was nine or ten...

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    TRIGGER WARNING: racism, sexism, human mutilation...J. Marion Sims is called “the Father...

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