Nothing hateful about it. The hygiene and health of slaves in Virginia was
nothing that would be of much interest to the educated and cultured
plantation owner of Jefferson's background.
Please read:
Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in
Antebellum Virginia (Blacks in the New World) by Todd L. Savitt and
(http://www.amazon.com/Health-Slaves-Southern-Plantations/dp/B000MZSSE8/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF
8&s=books&qid=1210819134&sr=8-12) The Health of Slaves on Southern
Plantations by William Dosite Postell
and
Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South by Marie
Jenkins Schwartz (Hardcover - May 30, 2006)
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