Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction
Book by 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. ... Google Books
Originally published: March 19, 2012
Author: Jim Downs
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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, ...
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African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Jim Downs. Reveals that the moment of emancipation triggered widespread illness ...
By Jim Downs. 2015. 280 pages. Historical analysis of the illness and suffering endured by African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Jim Downs's Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction breaks new ground in how historians interpret ...
This book tells the story of hundreds of thousands of African Americans who, following their emancipation from slavery during and after the Civil War, ...
$29.95 (978-0-19-975872-2). In Jim Downs's Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil. War and Reconstruction, scholars of ...
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Posted: Jun 20, 2015
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Jun 10, 2012 · At least one quarter of the four million former slaves got sick or died between 1862 and 1870, Professor Downs writes, including at least 60,000 ...
Jun 23, 2014 · In Jim Downs's Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, scholars of African ...
Jim Downs' Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction offers new insight into experiences of the recently ...