...began experimenting on enslaved women without consent and without
any anesthesia, causing untold suffering. Operating under the mere
racist notion that African American people did not feel pain, he
asked his patients, who were completely naked, to perch on their
knees and bend forward onto their elbows so their heads rested on
their hands. After 30 operations and 4 years spent experimenting on
a 17-year-old enslaved woman, he finally “perfected” his method.
Only then did he begin to practice on white women, to whom he freely administered anesthesia. Sims’s heinous acts were legally
permissible because enslaved women were considered no more than
their master’s property and were allowed no autonomy over their own bodies.
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