Title: Listen to me good
First published: 1996
Description: Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Sifting through nearly five decades of providing care for women in rural Greene County, she relates the tales that capture the life-and-death struggle of the birthing experience and the traditions, pharmacopeia, and spiritual attitudes that influenced her practice.

Believed to be the oldest living (though retired) traditional African American midwife in Alabama, Smith is one of the few who can recount old-time birthing ways.
Subjects: History, African American midwives, Midwifery, Biography, Midwives, Alabama, biography, African american women, Black People
Places: Alabama, Eutaw
People: Margaret Charles Smith (1906-)
LC classification: RG962.E98 S65 1996