Medicine and Slavery - The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia

Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination.In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.

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Todd L. Savitt

Summary

Offers an insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority. This work evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of African Americans, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.

Product details

• Authors: Todd L. Savitt
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1981
• EAN: 9780252008740
• ISBN: 978-0-252-00874-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 151 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 506 g
• Series: Blacks in the New World; Blacks in the New World
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology