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W. D. Postell publishes The Health of Slaves.

1951

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Postell's book describes "an uncomplicated image of antebellum slave health care in which well-organized plantation infirmaries represented the prevailing norm among Southern slaveholders" (Kenney, 2009).

This continues to entrench the white supremacist belief that enslavement was an institution that supported enslaved African-Americans and their well being.