The William and Mary Quarterly · 1980 · 124 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesAfrican American StudiesHistoryAfrican American HistoryMedical SociologySlavery StudiesAbolitionismBlack StudiesBlack Women's HealthPlantation SlaveryBlack Community HealthEnslaved HealthEnslaved MedicineHealth Under ApartheidSlave Health
'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'.