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.
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.
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.
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* 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
* 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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