Medicine and Slavery

Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (Blacks in the New World) [Paperback]

Author: Todd L. Savitt | Language: English | ISBN: 025200874X | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia
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'Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination. In "Medicine and Slavery", Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations'.

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• Series: Blacks in the New World
• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press (January 1, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 025200874X
• ISBN-13: 978-0252008740
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,055,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This book is an excellent secondary resource. Todd Savitt has compiled information usuing primary resources that allows the reader to understand the practical elements of health care for African Americans as well as poor whites during the antebellum time period.

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