Quiltmaker and historical storyteller Gloria Kellon introduces her 2016 quilt, "An Ode to Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy."

In the words of "More Up" and artist Michelle Browder, whose monument to the three mothers of gynecology resides in Mobile, Alabama:

“Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey were enslaved women from plantations in and around Montgomery, Alabama. With neither consent nor anesthesia, they were experimented upon by Dr. J. Marion Sims in the 1840s. After publishing the results of his 'success,' Sims moved to New York to seek fame and fortune. Within a decade, he became known as the Father of Gynecology. By contrast, Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey fell into history. They changed the world, only to be forgotten by it."