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Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Sick from Freedom African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author: Jim Downs
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 hund...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199758722
ISBN-10: 0199758727
Publication Date: 5/14/2012
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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