Bibliograph

Sick from freedom, African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Jim Downs

Type

Label

Sick from freedom, African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Jim Downs

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sick from freedom

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

784886676

Responsibility statement

Jim Downs

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

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, this book reveals, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. The book 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 consequences for innumerable freed people.--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

specialized

Creator