| Summary: | Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as the author reveals in this text, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. The author covers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history - that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, also had devastating impacts on the health of the populace.
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