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Night Doctors, also known as Night Riders, Night Witches, Ku Klux Doctors, and Student Doctors, are bogeymen of African American folklore with some factual basis. African American folklore told of doctors who would abduct, kill, and dissect, performing a plethora of experiments, referred to as "Night Doctors". Emerging from the realities of body snatching from graves and enforced medical experimentation, the Night Doctors' purpose was to further prevent slaves, freedmen, and black workers from leaving for the Northern United States. The term night doctors is often broadly used, referring to those who steal, buy, or practice on African American corpses to further their medical knowledge. At this time, the cadaver shortage among medical schools in the south led to people digging up their gra

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rdfs:comment	Night Doctors, also known as Night Riders, Night Witches, Ku Klux Doctors, and Student Doctors, are bogeymen of African American folklore with some factual basis. African American folklore told of doctors who would abduct, kill, and dissect, performing a plethora of experiments, referred to as "Night Doctors". Emerging from the realities of body snatching from graves and enforced medical experimentation, the Night Doctors' purpose was to further prevent slaves, freedmen, and black workers from leaving for the Northern United States. The term night doctors is often broadly used, referring to those who steal, buy, or practice on African American corpses to further their medical knowledge. At this time, the cadaver shortage among medical schools in the south led to people digging up their gra (en)
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has abstract	Night Doctors, also known as Night Riders, Night Witches, Ku Klux Doctors, and Student Doctors, are bogeymen of African American folklore with some factual basis. African American folklore told of doctors who would abduct, kill, and dissect, performing a plethora of experiments, referred to as "Night Doctors". Emerging from the realities of body snatching from graves and enforced medical experimentation, the Night Doctors' purpose was to further prevent slaves, freedmen, and black workers from leaving for the Northern United States. The term night doctors is often broadly used, referring to those who steal, buy, or practice on African American corpses to further their medical knowledge. At this time, the cadaver shortage among medical schools in the south led to people digging up their graves in the night to steal bodies, and slave owners selling their deceased to make some extra money. Grave robbing often happened in poor communities where they had no means to have or fund any deterrence of grave robbing or protection of their cemeteries. Night doctors preying on these marginalized communities were often overlooked by wealthier, more powerful people in the communities, and inevitably led to the fleeing of African Americans in the early to mid 20th century, now known as The Great Migration. The African American community's distrust of the medical occupation and doctors predates the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, where doctors unethically withheld treatment from African Americans with the disease to use them as an experimental basis for untreated syphilis. When night doctors started emerging, the bodies of southern blacks were a valuable resource for dissection and autopsy studies in medical colleges. The horrors night doctors caused continued even after the Civil war as they kept stealing African American bodies for dissection. Unethical practices against African Americans led to fear and distrust in the medical community. (en)
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