Résumé :
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Without proactively researching the history of black pregnant women and slavery the true extent of suffering endured may not be apparent. For example, slaveholding surgeon François Marie Prevost pioneered caesarean sections by experimenting on black enslaved women (Owens & Fett 2019). This is a small insight to demonstrate how the obstetric and gynaecological fields are indebted to black enslaved women. Furthermore, during the Windrush era in the 1940s and 1950s, men and women of African descent migrated to the United Kingdom (UK) to help rebuild the post-war economy, with a significant number of women being recruited into the health care sector (Nayar 2016). Despite the deep debt of gratitude, and reflecting on the cruelty and hardship women faced, a vast disparity between races is still ingrained in all areas of society today (Achiume 2018).
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