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Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (279 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199908783 0199908788 0199758727 9780199758722 1280593938 9781280593932 9780199911547 0199911541 9780190254438 0190254432 |