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 Book Explores Link Between Slavery, War and Yellow Fever
Book Explores Link Between Slavery, War and Yellow Fever
US--Plagues have long been seen as a source of divine retribution. In her new history of yellow fever, Molly Caldwell Crosby argues the disease can be seen as a punishment for the evil of slavery. In The American Plague, she notes every European country that profited from the slave trade suffered outbreaks of yellow fever, a viral infection whose name describes the jaundiced skin of its victims. (Offsite: USA Today)
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