Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction /
Downs, Jim.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
African Americans
Slaves
Freedmen