| Description |
1 online resource (279 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Dying to be free: the unexpected medical crises of war and emancipation -- The anatomy of emancipation: the creation of a healthy labor force -- Freedmen's hospitals: the medical division of the Freedmen's bureau -- Reconstructing an epidemic: smallpox among former slaves, 1862-1868 -- The healing power of labor: dependent, disabled, orphaned, elderly, and female freed slaves in the postwar South -- Narrating illness: freedpeople's health claims at Reconstruction's end. |
| Summary |
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 Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating impacts. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Health aspects -- United States.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. |
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United States. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies. |
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Freed persons -- Diseases -- United States.
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Freed persons. |
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Diseases. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects.
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Black People -- history. |
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Health Services Accessibility -- history. |
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Health Status. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613623768 (DLC) 2012004181 |
| ISBN |
9780199908783 (electronic book) |
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0199908788 (electronic book) |
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0199758727 |
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9780199758722 |
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1280593938 |
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9781280593932 |
| Standard No. |
9786613623768 |
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