Necropolis
Subtitle: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2022
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674241053
Description: "In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn Olivarius explores the resulting framework of "immunocapital." For whites, immunity signaled creditworthiness. For enslaved Blacks, immunity enhanced their exploitability, relegating them to the harshest labor"--