Black Wet Nurses And The Negative Connotations That Surrounds Them

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Black Wet Nurses And The Negative Connotations That Surrounds Them

By Marissa Johnson When someone thinks of a black wet nurse, they don’t think of the ideal of a nurturing maternal figure. Rather, the modern black woman thinks of the idea of being a nurse or even of the notion of breastfeeding in general as evoking a visceral reaction akin to swallowing spoiled milk. Yet, []

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