Sick from freedom [electronic resource] : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Jim Downs.

9780190254438 (ebook) :

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

1 online resource (xiv, 264 p.)

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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 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.

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September 01, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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