Honouring the slaves experimented on by the ‘father of gynaecology’
Honouring the slaves experimented on by the ‘father of gynaecology’: This 1952 painting by Robert Thom is the only known representation of Lucy, Anarcha and Betsey. Pearson Museum, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine When she was just 17, a slave girl called Anarcha was “given” to an ambitious young medic, along with two other …