Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolde...

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Main Author: Schwalm, Leslie A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
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Summary:"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:1469672715
1469672707
9781469672700
9781469672717
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