Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness And Suffering During The Civil War And Reconstruction

by Jim Downs

2015

Publication

Oxford University Press (2015), Edition: Reprint, 280 pages

Description

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 co

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

280 p.; 9.1 inches
Page: 0.1843 seconds