Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs

Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction

Jim Downs

280 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced
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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, a...

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