Necropolis : Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom /
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified the brutal inequities of slave-powered capitalism. Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2022]
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