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Greenfield, Eloise

The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives

32 pp. | Alazar | September, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-0-9977720-7-4 $17.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Daniel Minter. In a series of poems that make up a collective "biography" of African American midwives, esteemed poet Greenfield begins with the women midwives kidnapped from Africa to America as slaves and moves through the generations to present day. A multi-page historical introduction, complete with photographs, offers concrete information about midwives. Minter's art is powerful and luminous, full of symbolic imagery and sinewy figures. Bib.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

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