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Supplementary "Ah, we poor colored women wage-earners in the South are fighting a terrible battle, and because of our weakness, our ignorance, our poverty, and our temptations we deserve the sympathies of mankind. Perhaps a million of us are introduced daily to the privacy of a million chambers thruout [sic] the South, and hold in our arms a million white children, thousands of whom, as infants, are suckled at our breasts--during my lifetime I myself have served as "wet nurse" to more than a dozen white children. On the one hand, we are assailed by white men, and, on the other hand, we are assailed by black men, who should be our natural protectors; and, whether in the cook kitchen, at the washtub, over the sewing machine, behind the baby carriage, or at the ironing board, we are but little more than pack horses, beasts of burden, slaves! In the distant future, it may be, centuries and centuries hence, a monument of brass or stone will be erected to the Old Black Mammies of the South, but what we need is present help, present sympathy, better wages, better hours, more protections, and a chance to breathe for once while alive as free women. If none others will help us, it would seem that the Southern white women themselves might do so in their own defense, because we are rearing their children--we feed them, we bathe them, we teach them to speak the English language, and in numberless instances we sleep with them--and it is inevitable that the lives of their children will in some measure be pure or impure according as they are affected by contact with their colored nurses."
https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/negnurse/negnurse.html