"In the 1840s, James Marion Sims, a white doctor in Montgomery, Alabama, performed painful experiments without anesthesia on Lucy, an enslaved Black woman, while other doctors observed."

"Though the potentially life threatening experiments caused excruciating pain, Sims legally needed permission only from the enslaved women’s “owners.”

https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-medical-exploitation-of-black-women/#:~:text=Sims%20was%20lauded%20as%20the,a%20chronic%20complication%20of%20childbirth.

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