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

Author: Downs, Jim.

Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Descriptionxiv, 264 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ch 1 Dying to be Free: The Unexpected Medical Crises of War and Emancipation -- Ch 2 The Anatomy of Emancipation: The Creation of a Healthy Labor Force -- Ch 3 Freedmen's Hospitals: The Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau -- Ch 4 Reconstructing an Epidemic: Smallpox among Former Slaves, 1862-1868 -- Ch 5 The Healing Power of Labor: Disabled, Orphaned, Elderly, and Female Freed Slaves in the Postwar South -- Ch 6 Narrating Illness: Freedpeople's Health Claims at Reconstruction's End -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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