The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives Cover:Paperback subversive book that celebrates the

subversive book that celebrates the liberation

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The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives Cover:Paperback subversive book that celebrates theThe Women Who Caught the Babies highlights important aspects of the training and work of African American midwives and the ways in which they have helped, and continue to help, so many families by catching their babies at birth. The blend of Eloise Greenfield's poetry and Daniel Minter's art evokes heartfelt appreciation of the abilities of African American midwifes over the course of time. The poem Africa to America" begins the poetic journey. The