Negro Doctor
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A "negro doctor" often referred to a slave on a plantation who administered medicine to other slaves, and on occasion, to whites. "Negro doctoresses" were usually women who acted as midwives and who administered medicinal herbs (see Blanton, Medicine in Virginia, 173-75).
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