A review by sbcrra
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

I hope my work is the first of many in which the enslaved voice is central to conversations about what happened to enslaved bodies.  (Pg. 212)

I'm an adult and I am only now learning about the centrality that black bodies played in the advancement of medicine and the understanding of the human anatomy in the US. This country was built on the backs of black people and its ridiculous that none of it is ever really exemplified in K-12 education. Black bodies were commodified from the womb to the grave and this book explains exactly how.