Abstract
A passionate vocation to care for others and a desire to empower her patients drove Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831–95) to overcome 19th-century prejudice against her gender and ethnicity and qualify as “doctress of medicine” (the term she used), the first African American woman to do so. Crumpler gained extensive experience treating destitute former enslaved people in the southern states after the end of the American Civil War, and published A Book of Medical Discourses: in Two Parts, a practical guide to the care of infants and women's health.
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