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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)

And people wonder why POC stay side-eying the medical industry.

Medical violence is torture and murder for profit.

For years white people experimented on marginalized groups to further their medical field. When people talk about the Holocaust they talk about the horrible medical experiments that were done on Jew, but they always seem to forget what happens in our own soil. 

IN HONOR OF AFRICAN ANCESTORS AT BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC

Vicissitudes Underwater Sculpture - Grenada, West Indies

Artist Jason de Caires Taylor, with Johanna Fernandez , Ari Merretazon and Tina Varick, NPR article about the artists’ work.

AMAZING!