ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURES

1.1. Portrait of John Archer

1.2. Portrait of Ephraim McDowell

1.3. Portrait of John Peter Mettauer

1.4. Engraving of James Marion Sims

1.5. James Marion Sims’s first women’s hospital, Montgomery, Alabama (1895)

2.1. List of slaves owned by Joseph Glover, 1851

2.2. List of slaves owned by Joseph Glover, along with their occupations, 1851

2.3. List of slaves sold by Joseph Glover, 1851

3.1. Daguerreotype of Drana, a South Carolina slave

5.1. Dr. James Marion Sims and nurse repairing a vesico-vaginal fistula patient

TABLES

2.1. Health and Sale Statuses of Richland and Mount Pleasant Plantation Slaves

2.2. Prices of Male and Female Slaves, 1859 and 1860

2.3. Comparison of Quantity of Cotton Picked per Week according to Slave’s Gender

4.1. Number of Reproductive and Sexually Transmitted Illnesses in Greater New York City