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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downs, Jim, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1861-1865
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Health aspects > United States.
Freed persons > Diseases > United States.
Black people > History.
Health Services Accessibility > history
Health Status
Personnes affranchies > Maladies > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Black people.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Health aspects.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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