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There were insufficient physicians at the time, and those who were available were not even trusted by the populace. According to stories, people chose to rely on the medicinal skills of slaves and other Africans to treat their families and friends.
Cesar’s medical prowess reached politicians in South Carolina, who went so far as to release him from slavery and offer him a lifetime stipend because of his expert knowledge of the African healing practice.
South Carolina legislators were persuaded and reached an agreement in the Commons House, granting Cesar, who was around 67 at the time, his freedom.
He is considered to have been the first African American to have his medical findings published when he died in 1754.
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The slave doctors were more skillful than the overseer's system. So, If I lived back then, I would insist on being treated by the slave doctor too. The overseer's doctors sound like croakers fooling around with bleeding people. Failers, in every witch way but loose.
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