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 historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbrea...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | 264 pages ; cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Ch 1 Dying to be Free: The Unexpected Medical Crises of War and Emancipation
- Ch 2 The Anatomy of Emancipation: The Creation of a Healthy Labor Force
- Ch 3 Freedmen's Hospitals: The Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau
- Ch 4 Reconstructing an Epidemic: Smallpox among Former Slaves, 1862-1868
- Ch 5 The Healing Power of Labor: Disabled, Orphaned, Elderly, and Female Freed Slaves in the Postwar South
- Ch 6 Narrating Illness: Freedpeople's Health Claims at Reconstruction's End
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.