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The Chest in the Ditch: 407 Births Hidden by a Name
The Chest in the Ditch: 407 Births Hidden by a Name
A cedar chest placed deliberately in a drainage ditch held 407 index cards recording births - each with a minute time, weight, date, a name, and the same initials C.P. - yet none of those births appeared in the county record under that name; who was C.P. and why were her records erased?
In this episode, we walk through the chest found in April mud, the forty-one years of uninterrupted cards from June 1948 to September 1989, and the gaps between official certificates and Powell’s ledger - what does the chest tell us about hidden midwifery and…
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