Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction - Hardcover
by Jim Downs
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199758722ISBN-10:199758727UPC:9780199758722Book Category:Social Science, Medical, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, History, United StatesBook Topic:American, Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:9.30 x 6.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCK5PBPT05
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199758722ISBN-10:199758727UPC:9780199758722Book Category:Social Science, Medical, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, History, United StatesBook Topic:American, Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:9.30 x 6.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCK5PBPT05
Jim Downs is Associate 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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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