Plantation Doctor - The Job of a Plantation Physician

The job of plantation doctor does not just mean being paid to take care of enslaved people. Doctors are a critical part of this because, again, not the easiest thing to keep mothers and babies alive in this period of time. Enslave women were not only expected to reproduce, but it seems, reproduce often. As dorothy roberts wrote, slave woen's child bearingrep the slave labor force.