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The yellow demon of fever fighting disease in the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade
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The yellow demon of fever [electronic resource] : fighting disease in the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade / Manuel Barcia.
ISBN
9780300252019 (electronic bk.)
0300252013 (electronic bk.)
9780300215854
0300215851
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 281 pages.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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July 10, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
ONE: "A Beautiful Spot for a Grave": Prophylaxis and Prevention in the Slave-Trade Contact Zones
TWO: The Blood of Thousands: Slave Traders and the Fight against Disease in the Age of Abolition
THREE: Cruising for Slaves and Boating up Rivers: Anti-Slave Trade Patrols and the Fight against Disease across the Atlantic
FOUR: "Such an Asylum of Wretchedness": Anti-Slave Trade Reception Centers, Hospitals, and Cemeteries
FIVE: A Shared Struggle: Cooperation, Learning, and Knowledge Exchange in the Atlantic World
CLOSING REMARKS
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