The effects of emancipation upon the mental and physical health of the Negro of the South
By: by J.F. Miller
Contributors: Southern Medico-Psychological Association; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Health and hygiene; Mental health; Medical care; Slaves; Emancipation; Social conditions; Tuberculosis; Insanity (Law)
Other titles: North Carolina medical journal.; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Notes: Title from electronic caption on p. [1] (viewed February 14, 2003)

A critique of this paper appears in The Southern Sanitarium, vol. 1, no. 4, by L.A. Scruggs.

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Transcribed from: The effects of emancipation upon the mental and physical health of the Negro of the South / by J.F. Miller, M.D., Superintendent Eastern Hospital, Goldsboro, N.C. [Wilmington : s.n., 1896] 10 p. ; 23 cm. Caption title. "Reprinted from the North Carolina medical journal." "Read before the Southern Medico-Psychological Association, at Asheville, N.C., September 16, 1896."

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Table of contents: title: The health of the Negro prior to emancipation; title: Insanity and tuberculosis since emancipation; title: Etiology; title: Why more insanity among females than among the males.