Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Jim Downs.

Author/creator	Downs, Jim, 1973- author.
Format	Book and Print
Edition	Paperback edition.
Publication Info	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Copyright Notice	©2012
Description	xiv, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	African Americans--Health and hygiene --History. Enslaved persons--Emancipation --Health aspects --United States. Freed persons--Diseases --United States. Black People--history Black or African American--history American Civil War. United States--History --Civil War, 1861-1865 --Health aspects.

Contents	Dying to be free: the unexpected medical crises of war and emancipation -- The antomy of emancipation: the creation of a healthy labor force -- Freedmen's hospitals: the medical division of the Freedman'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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN	0190218266 (paperback)
ISBN	9780190218263 (paperback)
ISBN	(hardback)

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Laupus	Books - Stacks	WZ 80.5 B5 D751S 2015	✔ Available	Place Hold