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Pages: 280
Authors: Jim Downs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
Maladies of Empire
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Pages: 273
Authors: Jim Downs
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-12 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most
Stand by Me
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Jim Downs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-01 - Publisher: Basic Books

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From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in
Sick from Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Jim Downs
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-14 - Publisher: OUP USA

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Sick from Freedom provides the first study of the health conditions of emancipated slaves and reveals the epidemics, illnesses, and poverty that former slaves s
Beyond Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: David W. Blight
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedo