Download or read book BONES IN THE BASEMENT written by Robert L. Blakely and published by Smithsonian Institution Press. This book was released on 1997-12-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For teaching purposes In 19th-century American medical schools, anatomy professors and students were forced to obtain cadavers in secret. In 1989, a cache of some 9800 dissected and amputated human bones--the majority African American--was found in the basement of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. This book reveals a startling legacy of postmortem racism. 29 illustrations.