Night Doctors Dbq

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Night doctors and grave robbers had a significant yet tragic part in history by having consent from white doctors to steal bodies from graves and the streets. Many southern Doctors made medical advancements on slaves dead or alive. Night doctors caused a decrease in the economy, taking bodies out of graves without consent. Night doctors are part of the black folk history, so many whites used night doctors as a form of punishment or blackmail. Night Doctors snatched African Americans off the streets and gave these people or bodies to doctors to analyze. Night Doctors had many practices, such as their dressing, similar to the KKK, so several researchers believe they started the KKK. However, if doctors couldn’t steal enought bodies they’d …show more content…

However, night doctors were believed to be black folklore, it made such as impact in the black community that, “the night doctors weren’t just getting bodies for the medical profession, they were controlling a population (?).”. They dictated who did what and as time went on less and less people began to believe in the night doctors and only considered it a story. So white owners and black parents used this to their advantage, parents would use the night riders as a punishment. The white owners spread rumors of night riders, “the purpose of spreading the night-doctor rumors had to do with restricting mobility to maintain economic control of former slave labor (?).”. Not only did the night doctor rumor help control the economy, but it maintained control over the slaves in the South. The white owners made sure that slaves would be to scared to run away from plantations. “the night doctors were employed as psychological warfare explicitly to discourage the Great Migration and to maintain a stable agrarian work force in the South (?).”. Night Doctors were extremely feared, folklore who snatched african americans. Who went to graves to dig up bodies to help the medical field and inflict

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