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Sick From Freedom : African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sick From Freedom : African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction about?
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. <p>In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the
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- Author
- Jim Downs
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190218263
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Social Science, History
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (64 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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