Black Doctor: A Biography of James McCune Smith, MD

A biography of the first credentialed African American physician in the United States, a vital nineteenth-century abolitionist and statesman.

The heart of the whites must be changed, thoroughly, entirely, permanently changed . . . and men, colored men, must go to work to produce that conviction—of the eternal equality of the Human Race—which is the first principle of good government—of Bible politics. This must be done, but how?

Dr. James McCune Smith spent his life seeking the answer to thi...