James Marion Sims 

Hi, my name is James Marion Sims.  I was born and raised in Lanchester County, South Carolina. I am a medical professional and interned at Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia. I am pro-slavery because I think it is the most effective way to pursue my medical experiments.

 I can help the slave owners with keeping their slaves healthy by providing health care on the plantation. “Becuase I use slaves I was able to experiment as often as I want to”. This allows me to cheaply exercise my practices because “I don't have to use anesthesia as slaves don't feel pain the same way white people do”. 

When the slave owners provide clothes and paid taxes on the slaves I sometimes take ownership becuase I found advantages in working on people that are essentially my property. On a different note, I have developed a new tool called a speculum. This is why they call me the modern father of gynecology.

 I have perfected my advanced set of skills after four long years of experimenting with slaves, in those four years of experimenting I have found in my research, that black people’s skulls grow too quickly which makes them less intelligent than ourselves. I have to use shoe-making tools to work on their tight brains. In 1850 I moved to New York and opened the first all-women's hospital and continued my work. Some of my white colleagues say I go too far with my experiments but I disagree.

After the research I have done, this is the speech I would have made if I were James Marion Sims. Pretty much everything he says, does, and thinks, I feel is wrong. He is very racist in many ways. For example, when he says “black people's brains are not as developed as ours (white people) because their skulls grow too quickly”. This makes me wonder where he has gathered his information from. Regardless of the person, if someone is uneducated to the extent that a slave would be, there is really no room to compare to a person that is as educated as a doctor like James.  Another thing James said that bothers me is his comment about not using any pain medicine to prevent the slaves from feeling pain during his experiments. He thinks they do not feel pain because they are black this could not be any more wrong. No matter the race or ethnicity everyone feels pain to a certain level and performing surgeries on people would definitely generate pain and make a significant impact on the patient getting worked on. Overall, I feel there is some room to give James because of the times and the way he was raised but to go to the extent he went is wrong and many people know that. For example, when James opened his all-women's hospital and people that worked there told him that he was going too far, he just ignored them and continued on with his beliefs that he was doing it correctly and he was not in the wrong.