Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia by Savitt, Todd L.

Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252008740)

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Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia by Savitt, Todd L.

Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia

$22.00
Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia by Savitt, Todd L.

Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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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.


Author: Todd L. Savitt
ISBN-10: 025200874X
ISBN-13: 9780252008740
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1981
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.74d
By Todd L. Savitt
By Todd L. Savitt
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Todd L. Savitt is a professor in the department of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, and coeditor of Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South.

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