| Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia Revised Edition Contributor(s): Savitt, Todd L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 025200874X ISBN-13: 9780252008740 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1981 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Social Science | Slavery |
| Dewey: 362.84 |
| LCCN: 78008520 |
| Series: Blacks in the New World |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.08" W x 8.98" (1.03 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |