The health and well-being of Black women have never been a true priority in America, except during enslavement, when our survival was necessary to sustain capitalism and forced labor. Enslaved Black women, exploited for reproductive labor to grow the enslaved population, were often cared for by fellow enslaved midwives. These women brought with them generations of wisdom, skill, and ancestral knowledge, tending to one another as they had long before they were stolen from their homelands. After slavery ended, those midwives, who became known as “granny midwives,” cared for Black and White women in parts of the rural South where hospitals were not accessible.