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Author Downs, Jim, 1973- author.
Title Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Jim Downs.
Publisher New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Copyright date ©2012


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 Wilberforce Institute  RA 448.5 B53 D7  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Descript xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm
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Contents Introduction -- Ch. 1. Dying to be free: the unexpected medical crises of war and emancipation -- Ch. 2. The anatomy of emancipation: the creation of a healthy labor force -- Ch. 3. Freedmen's hospitals: the medical division of the Freedmen's Bureau -- Ch. 4. Reconstructing an epidemic: smallpox among former slaves, 1862-1868 -- Ch. 5. The healing power of labor: disabled, orphaned, elderly, and female freed slaves in the postwar South -- Ch. 6. Narrating illness: freedpeople's health claims at Reconstruction's end -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.
ISBN 9780199758722 hardback
0199758727 hardback
Standard no. 99951055261
99949256241
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Author Downs, Jim, 1973- author.
Subject African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Health aspects -- United States.
Freed persons -- Diseases -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects.
Descript xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Introduction -- Ch. 1. Dying to be free: the unexpected medical crises of war and emancipation -- Ch. 2. The anatomy of emancipation: the creation of a healthy labor force -- Ch. 3. Freedmen's hospitals: the medical division of the Freedmen's Bureau -- Ch. 4. Reconstructing an epidemic: smallpox among former slaves, 1862-1868 -- Ch. 5. The healing power of labor: disabled, orphaned, elderly, and female freed slaves in the postwar South -- Ch. 6. Narrating illness: freedpeople's health claims at Reconstruction's end -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.
ISBN 9780199758722 hardback
0199758727 hardback
Standard no. 99951055261
99949256241
Author Downs, Jim, 1973- author.
Subject African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Health aspects -- United States.
Freed persons -- Diseases -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  RA 448.5 B53 D7  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Health aspects -- United States.
Freed persons -- Diseases -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects.
Descript xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Introduction -- Ch. 1. Dying to be free: the unexpected medical crises of war and emancipation -- Ch. 2. The anatomy of emancipation: the creation of a healthy labor force -- Ch. 3. Freedmen's hospitals: the medical division of the Freedmen's Bureau -- Ch. 4. Reconstructing an epidemic: smallpox among former slaves, 1862-1868 -- Ch. 5. The healing power of labor: disabled, orphaned, elderly, and female freed slaves in the postwar South -- Ch. 6. Narrating illness: freedpeople's health claims at Reconstruction's end -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.
ISBN 9780199758722 hardback
0199758727 hardback
Standard no. 99951055261
99949256241

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