[PDF.24zf] Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

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

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 | #962965 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2012-05-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.00 x9.40l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Little Know Part of the Reconstruction Narrative is Reveled.|By Lionel S. Taylor|This book challenges the traditional held view of Reconstruction and revels a aspect of it that is not talked about. usually what we learn in in school is what Reconstruction is and that the Freedman's Bureau, the first federal relief agency of its type provided clothing, food and education to t| |
"An important challenge to our understanding of an event that scholars and laypeople alike have preferred to see as an uplifting story of newly liberated people vigorously claiming their long-denied rights." - The New York Times

Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. 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.

In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction   |  Jim Downs. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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