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Sick from freedom
Freed persons
Health Status
African Continental Ancestry Group
Freedmen
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Emancipation
Health services accessibility
American Civil War
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Santé et hygiène
Slaves
Noirs américains
Blacks
Health aspects
Maladies
Health and hygiene
African Americans
Diseases
History
"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 groundbrea…
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