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Recounts an eventful forty-year career as a midwife in rural Alabama, detailing the joys, the dangers, and the everyday experiences of this vanishing profession
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A life well lived unfolds in this exuberant, unlettered telling of a midwife's story. Logan, born circa 1910 into a large, rural, God-fearing family in Sweetwater, Ala., recalls how, only a generation removed from slavery, she entered into her life's work. During 40 years she delivered hundreds of babies, mostly to poor white and black mothers in the depths of the Depression, providing help when doctors were either scarce or unwilling. Her oral biography is at once a mini-history of Southern midwifery, essentially a black phenomenon in the region, and a full-circle view of her career from initial toleration to lauded acceptance by medical professionals. In Logan's rich, regional speech as she talks with Clark, who teaches at the University of Alabama, a strong, faith-filled woman is heard; her eloquent memoir is vivid Americana. First serial to Life magazine.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Logan is a black "granny" (a formally untutored midwife) whose oral autobiography has been faithfully transcribed and presented as a history of one woman's considerable efforts to provide safe deliveries for the rural poor and for those desiring home birth in Alabama from approximately 1925 to 1984. Logan tells an interesting story which includes hard work, an abiding faith in God, a deep respect for Afro-American folklore and tradition, and myriad details of the process of midwifery. While the content is fascinating, the many repetitions, half-finished sentences, and idiomatic English make this book difficult to read, though it captures the personality and character of Logan quite well.
- Julie Semkow, Health Sciences Ctr . , SUNY at Brooklyn
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