Today, I am gathering the elements of the life of Baptiste, an enslaved infirm "old negro" in 1833, who was formerly an apothecary.
Baptiste, « Noir du Domaine »[Black of the Domain], serving the hospital pharmacy
The Military Hospital of Fort-de-France #3/3 Enslaveds to Serve the Sick (b)
Today, I am talking about the enslaved apothecaries, assistant surgeons and nurses who helped care for the sick at the Fort-Royal hospital, a paramedical activity that was not very common in the colonial and slave-owning society of the 18th century.
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