Dr. Daina Berry, a Town Lake (TX) Chapter member, shines a light on the cadaver trade underpinning 19th-century medical education in a New York Times OpEd published this month. “The topic of slavery features prominently in each February’s reflections on African-American history,” she writes. “But when it comes to this darkest time in our country’s past, experts are still discovering horrors that have not yet made their way into history books. One shocking fact that’s recently come to light: Major medical schools used slave corpses, acquired through an underground market in dead bodies, for education and research.”
