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In Virginia and the rest of the Southern Colonies, large plantations often had a building devoted to the treatment of sick slaves. More of an economic than humanitarian establishment, remains of slave hospitals are found at Sabine Hall and Mount Vernon and were staffed by folk-practioners rather than medical doctors. Conditions in other southern states were described in English actress Fanny Kemble's memoir "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-39", a copy of which is in Special Collections at the Rockefeller Library.
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