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Wooden building with a porch and an opening but no door. It is surrounded by a fence and grass. There is a woman sitting on the porch.
A former cabin for enslaved people at Friendfield Village.

Community care post-Emancipation led by Black and Indigenous midwives in the Southeast.

1865

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A former cabin for enslaved people at Friendfield Village.

After Emancipation in 1865, medical services for African-American communities are sparse and under-funded, and midwives continue to offer general health care. These Indigenous and Black midwives/birth workers function as liaisons between the community and the few accessible health professionals and institutions. This system lasts until the 1960s.