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100			_aWilkie, Laurie A. _eauthor
245			_aExpelling frogs and binding babies: conception, gestation and birth in nineteenth-century African-American midwifery _ccreated by Laurie A. . Wilkie
264			_bTaylor & Francis _c2013
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520			_aThat pregnancy can be perceived as a blessed or cursed event is well-recognised in many contemporary societies, but it was a lived and embodied experience for African-American women in the Deep South of the United States in the 19th century. Oral histories from healers, root doctors and midwives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries paint a portrait of the fetus as an invasive spiritual malignancy to be driven from the body, or an ephemeral spirit that could be accidently frightened from an unwelcoming body. This paper explores these beliefs and practices and examines their archaeological signatures. It considers how during and after birth, the infant remained only lightly bound to this world with the spiritual world beckoning beguilingly to them and where spiritual-medical intervention was required to entire the infant's soul to anchor itself to the physical body.
650			_a abortion
650			_achildbirth
650			_apregnancy
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2013.799043
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