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9780252008740 Academic Inspection Copy

Medicine and Slavery

The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia
  • ISBN-13: 9780252008740
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Todd L. Savitt
  • Price: AUD $47.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1981
  • Format: Paperback 352 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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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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