“Placenta (Human)”: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Women’s Work at Sea
by Julia Stryker On March 27th, 1873, still more than 1,600 miles from New York and with Liverpool just as far behind, John Godbold, a steerage steward aboard the steamship SS Canada, made a telling discovery. While sweeping “after steerage,” he “found in the waterway of the single women’s quarters a placenta (human). After some […]
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