Week 2 At-A-Glance

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Read

  • Willoughby, C. D. (2018). “Running Away from Draeptomania: Samuel A. Cartwright, Medicine, and Race in the Antebellum South”. Journal of Southern History, 84(3), 579-614. Find on Course reserves also here is the PDF Download Willoughby.pdf  
  • Sharla Fett (2002) “Fooling the Master” Chapter 7 in Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations, UNC Press. Find on course reserves also here is the PDF Download Fett.pdf  
  • Samuel Cartwright (1851) “Report on the Diseases and Physical Characteristics of the Negro Race” New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal Download 1SamuelACartwrightReporto.pdf
  • Benjamin Rush, “Observations Intended to Favour a Supposition That the Black Color (as it is called) of the Negroes is Derived from the Leprosy” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1799. Download Rush 1799.pdf

 

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