Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Jim Downs.

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...

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Main Author: Downs, Jim, 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
1861-1865
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Health aspects > United States.
Freed persons > Diseases > United States.
Black people > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Black people
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Health aspects.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Dying to be free : the unexpected medical crises of war and emancipation
  • The anatomy of emancipation : the creation of a healthy labor force
  • Freedmen's hospitals : the medical division of the Freedmen's bureau
  • Reconstructing an epidemic : smallpox among former slaves, 1862-1868
  • The healing power of labor : dependent, disabled, orphaned, elderly, and female freed slaves in the postwar South
  • Narrating illness : freedpeople's health claims at Reconstruction's end.

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