A “monstrous” birth
Having a baby with a birth defect could get you killed in colonial America, and attending such a birth as a midwife was also perilous. Anne Hutchinson, the subject of the previous post, was already in...
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Another “monstrous birth” in New England
Allow me one more post on this last day of Women's History Month about Anne Hutchinson, the midwife in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was banished to Rhode Island for heresy. The pregnancy Hutchinson...
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