Sick from Freedom

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  Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

  By Jim Downs

  On the merchant's response to sickness in the North, see Erwin H. Ackerknecht, “AntiContagionism between 1821 and 1867,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 22 (1948): 562– 93; Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States ...

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  Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

  By Jim Downs

  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.

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  Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction

  By Jim Downs

  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.

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  Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction

  By Jim Downs

  Sick from Freedom provides the first study of the health conditions of emancipated slaves and reveals the epidemics, illnesses, and poverty that former slaves suffered from when slavery ended and freedom began.

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  Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction

  By Jim Downs

  But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century and, this book reveals, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people.