In 1893 a Richmond newspaper described him as a “jolly little ghoul.” Chris
Baker was a respected “anatomical man” in the white community, procuring
cadavers by extralegal means for the dissection room at the Medical College of
Virginia. In the city’s African American community he was reviled and is still
present in living memory. Local Records Senior Archivist Vince Brooks brings to
light the story of Richmond’s “resurrectionist” Chris Baker in this week’s
Halloween edition of the Out of the Box blog from the archivists at the Library
of Virginia.
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/
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