Sick from Freedom : African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruct...
ISBN: 9780199758722 | 0199758727
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/14/2012
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Sick from Freedom provides the first study of the health conditions of emancipated slaves and reveals the epidemics, illnesses, and poverty that former slaves suffered from when slavery ended and freedom began.
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 historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volum... MORE
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 historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volum... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Dying to Be Free: The Unexpected Medical Crises of War and Emancipation | p. 18 |
| The Anatomy of Emancipation: The Creation of a Healthy Labor Force | p. 42 |
| Freedmen's Hospitals: The Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau | p. 65 |
| Reconstructing an Epidemic: Smallpox among Former Slaves, 1862-1868 | p. 95 |
| The Healing Power of Labor: Dependent, Disable... MORE | p. 120 |
| Narrating Illness: Freedpeople's Health Claims at Reconstructions End | p. 146 |
| Conclusion | p. 162 |
| Epilogue | p. 171 |
| Notes | p. 179 |
| Bibliography | p. 237 |
| Index | p. 255 |
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Jim Downs is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College. He is the editor of Taking Back the Academy: History of Activism, History as Activism and Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change.
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