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Black doctors of the Civil War: New book reveals hidden history

'Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons,' includes the stories of three doctors with Philly roots.

Black Civil War surgeons are featured in a new book by historian Jill Newmark, including (from left) John H. Rapier Jr., Anderson R. Abbott, William P. Powell Jr., and Alexander T. Augusta, who was denied admission to the University of Pennsylvania medical school.
Black Civil War surgeons are featured in a new book by historian Jill Newmark, including (from left) John H. Rapier Jr., Anderson R. Abbott, William P. Powell Jr., and Alexander T. Augusta, who was denied admission to the University of Pennsylvania medical school.Read moreSouthern Illinois University Press
    by Tom Avril
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