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Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island. Professor Schwartz teaches courses on the history of slavery and the history of the early United States. She is the author of two books: Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South (Harvard University Press, 2006) and Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South (Harvard University Press, 2000). She has received recognition for her work from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as from historical and medical groups.