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“…the death of the vice president…”
Hatfield, M. O., & Wolff, W. (1997). Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993. Washington (D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 187.
“…raising a monument…”
This is fairly speculative. King’s monument in Cuba would not go up for many years, and there is no available image of it. Materials related to its erection are held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama.
“…a man named McQueen.”
See “…more slaves of his own now…,” above. Documents related to Sims’s transactions involving enslaved persons are held at the Montgomery County Archives in Montgomery, Alabama.
“…a young slave was mortally stabbed…”
Sims’s tone of excitement in venturing into abdominal surgery is palpable in his tone.
Sims, J. M., & New York Academy of Medicine. (1858). Silver sutures in surgery. New York: S.S. & W. Wood, p. 40.
“…a puncture to the boy’s left side…”
Sims’s description of the man’s wounds not only fails to specify how they were received, it reveals that Sims did not make an earnest effort to save his life. This speaks directly to his true motives in having agreed to attend to the case at all.
Sims, J. M., & New York Academy of Medicine. (1858). Silver sutures in surgery. New York: S.S. & W. Wood, pp. 40-41.
“The thoracic penetration…”
Sims, J. M., & New York Academy of Medicine. (1858). Silver sutures in surgery. New York: S.S. & W. Wood, p. 41.