Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction

by Jim Downs

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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 volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people.

In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0190218266

ISBN13:9780190218263

Release Date:January 2015

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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Abolition African-American Studies Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting History Medical Medical Books Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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