The Caribbean slave : a biological history
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The Caribbean slave : a biological history
(Studies in environment and history)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: 1984
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease environment after the arrival of the Spaniards; it also looks at the slave ancestors in their West African homeland and examines the ways in which the nutritional and disease environments of that area had shaped its inhabitants. In a particularly innovative chapter, he considers the epidemiological and pathological consequences of the middle passage for newly enslaved blacks. The balance of the book is devoted to the health of the black slave in the West Indies. Using the general health and level of nutrition of the island whites as a control, Kiple pays especially close attention to the role that nutrition played in the development of diseases. The study closes with a look at the continuing demographic difficulties of the black West Indian from the abolition of slavery.
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Background and Biology: Introduction
- 1. The peoples and their pathogens
- 2. West African diet and disease
- 3. The parameters of West African survival
- Part II. Diet, Disease, and Demography: Introduction
- 4. The middle passage and malnutrition
- 5. Plantation nutrition
- 6. Malnutrition: morbidity and mortality
- 7. Slave demography
- 8. Slave infant and child mortality
- 9. Black diseases and white medicine
- Part III. Pathogens and Politics: Introduction
- 10. Fevers and race
- 11. Epilogue: diet, disease, and displacement
- Notes
- Bibliographic essay
- Index.
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