Sick from freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Introduction

Ch. 1. Dying to be Free: The Unexpected Medical Crises of War and Emancipation

Ch. 2. The Anatomy of Emancipation: The Creation of a Healthy Labor Force

Ch. 3. Freedmen's Hospitals: The Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau

Ch. 4. Reconstructing an Epidemic: Smallpox among Former Slaves, 1862-1868

Ch. 5. The Healing Power of Labor: Disabled, Orphaned, Elderly, and Female Freed Slaves in the Postwar South

Ch. 6. Narrating Illness: Freedpeople's Health Claims at Reconstruction's End

Conclusion

Epilogue.