Jim Downs

Sick from Freedom

African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199758722
• ISBN-10: 0199758727
• Artikelnr.: 34923338

Autorenporträt

Jim Downs is Assistant 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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* 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
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index