| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: "A Beautiful Spot for a Grave": Prophylaxis and Prevention in the Slave-Trade Contact Zones -- TWO: The Blood of Thousands: Slave Traders and the Fight against Disease in the Age of Abolition -- THREE: Cruising for Slaves and Boating up Rivers: Anti-Slave Trade Patrols and the Fight against Disease across the Atlantic -- FOUR: "Such an Asylum of Wretchedness": Anti-Slave Trade Reception Centers, Hospitals, and Cemeteries -- FIVE: A Shared Struggle: Cooperation, Learning, and Knowledge Exchange in the Atlantic World -- CLOSING REMARKS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract |
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Barcia, Manuel. Yellow Demon of Fever : Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2020 9780300215854 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780300252019 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0300252013 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctvzpm7s5 JSTOR |
