Alabama statues honor slaves subject to experimental surgery

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A caller monument successful Montgomery pays tribute to 3 enslaved Black women who were subjected to experimental country by a 19th period doc celebrated for advancing women’s health. Al.com reports that the statues of Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey were unveiled Friday. They were 3 of galore Black women Dr. J. Marion Sims operated connected portion successful Montgomery. Sims is held up arsenic a pioneer successful the tract of gynecology, credited with processing caller aesculapian devices and a surgical method to dainty a complication of childbirth. But helium besides conducted experimental country without anesthesia connected enslaved African-American women.