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

by Todd L. Savitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025200874X
• ISBN13: 9780252008740
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Seocndary Resource Information

This book is an excellent secondary resource. Todd Savitt has compiled information usuing primary resources that allows the reader to understand the practical elements of health care for African Americans as well as poor whites during the antebellum time period.