Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Young Adult Fiction Family - Orphans & Foster Homes African American & Black Diversity & Multicultural That message would be self-evident

That message would be self-evident in a just world

fixing cars and hearing stories about his old blue pickup

a beautiful Delta town steeped in secrets and a scarred past

and the zoo

the values he had been taught at home

Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Young Adult Fiction Family - Orphans & Foster Homes African American & Black Diversity & Multicultural That message would be self-evidentHow race became embedded in a medical instrument In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical devicethe spirometerto show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied to argue that slaves were unfit for freedom. What is