Black histories of medicine, health, and disability in the United States illuminate the effects of racism on Black bodies and lifes, often specifically related to Black women's sexual, reproductive, and maternal health care. Antebellum enslaved midwives maintained African-derived cultural practices in providing both spiritual and health care. Despite their sustained and holistic care work for enslaved and free people for generations, Black midwives have been largely overlooked as key figures in African American history. Centering the Black midwife in U.S. and African American history uniquely reveals the co-constitutive nature of racism, sexism, classism, and ableism, and their collective influences on African American lives and culture,. The history of the Black midwife demonstrates societal apathy toward Black women by its collective treatment of midwives and the overwhelming disregard for Black and other marginalized women's access to qualitiy reproductive and maternal care. K. Mar Morgan is a Black feminist historian who studies African American expeirences with medicine, disabilitiy, and acces to care. Morgan earned her Ph.D. in American Studies with concentrations in History and African American Studies from Purdue University and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Alabama and serves on its Task Force Studying Race, Slavery, and Civil Rights.