How black slaves were routinely sold as ‘specimens’ to ambitious white doctors

To quote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr:

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Excerpt:

Medical museums openly solicited black body parts and medical societies relied on black bodies. Students too wrote graduating theses based on the medical manipulation of black “subjects” and “specimens”.

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