Disease and 19th Century Slave Trade
2020-12-10T21:44:42-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/807/20201210223454003_hd.jpgHistorian Manuel Barcia, author of, The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, discussed his book with Yale historian David Blight. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University hosted this event and provided the video.
Historian Manuel Barcia, author of, The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade,… read more
Historian Manuel Barcia, author of, The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, discussed his book with Yale historian David Blight. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University hosted this event and provided the video. close
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