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EBOOK Sick from Freedom:African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstructi
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199911547
EAN: 7FC47DE2EB
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Stron: 280
Data wydania: 2012
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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 as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly        consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people.In Sick from Freedom, Downs        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 freedpeople. Drawing on        massive new research into the records of the Medical Division of the Freedmen's        Bureau-a nascent national health system that cared for more than one million freed        slaves-he shows how the collapse of the plantation economy released a plague of        lethal diseases. With emancipation, African Americans seized the chance to move,        migrating as never before. But in their journey to freedom, they also encountered        yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, and exposure. To address        this crisis, the Medical Division hired more than 120 physicians, establishing some        forty underfinanced and understaffed hospitals scattered throughout the South,        largely in response to medical emergencies. Downs shows that the goal of the Medical        Division was to promote a healthy workforce, an aim which often excluded a wide        range of freedpeople, including women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and        children. Downs concludes by tracing how the Reconstruction policy was then        implemented in the American West, where it was disastrously applied to Native        Americans.The widespread medical calamity sparked by emancipation is an overlooked        episode of the Civil War and its aftermath, poignantly revealed in Sick from        Freedom.

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