Sick From Freedom - African American Illness Suffering During Civil War Reconstruction

Zusatztext Downs' book places the Civil War in another perspective that helps the reader think critically beyond the Emancipation Proclamation ... I would highly recommend this book. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Sick from Freedom provides the first study of the health conditions of emancipated slaves and reveals the epidemics, illnesses, and poverty that former slaves suffered from when slavery ended and freedom began. Zusammenfassung Sick from Freedom provides the first study of the health conditions of emancipated slaves and reveals the epidemics, illnesses, and poverty that former slaves suffered from when slavery ended and freedom began. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dying to be Free: The Unexpected Medical Crises of War and Emancipation 2. The Anatomy of Emancipation: The Creation of a Healthy Labor Force 3. Freedmen's Hospitals: The Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau 4. Reconstructing an Epidemic: Smallpox among Former Slaves, 1862-1868 5. The Healing Power of Labor: Dependent, Disabled, Orphaned, Elderly, and Female Freed Slaves in the Postwar South 6. Narrating Illness: Freedpeople's Health Claims at Reconstruction's End Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Jim Downs, Jim (Associate Professor of History Downs, Downs Jim
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2015
• EAN: 9780190218263
• ISBN: 978-0-19-021826-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)