Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (288 p)
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23 b-w illus
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780300252019
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. “A Beautiful Spot for a Grave”: Prophylaxis and Prevention in the Slave-Trade Contact Zones -- Two. The Blood of Thousands: Slave Traders and the Fight against Disease in the Age of Abolition -- Three. Cruising for Slaves and Boating up Rivers: Anti–Slave Trade Patrols and the Fight against Disease across the Atlantic -- Four. “Such an Asylum of Wretchedness”: Anti–Slave Trade Reception Centers, Hospitals, and Cemeteries -- Five. A Shared Struggle: Cooperation, Learning, and Knowledge Exchange in the Atlantic World -- Closing Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Inhalt:
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world
Anmerkung:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300215854
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780300215854
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.12987/9780300252019
