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Subject:	Re: NY Times essay and Gen John Hartwell Cocke
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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2008 22:44:45 EDT
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Nothing hateful about it.  The hygiene and health of  slaves in Virginia was 
nothing that would be of much interest to the educated  and cultured 
plantation owner of Jefferson's background.
 
Please read: 

    Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care  of Blacks in 
Antebellum Virginia (Blacks in the New World) by Todd  L. Savitt and       
(http://www.amazon.com/Health-Slaves-Southern-Plantations/dp/B000MZSSE8/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF
8&s=books&qid=1210819134&sr=8-12)       The Health of Slaves on Southern  
Plantations by William Dosite Postell 

and
 

Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in  the Antebellum South by Marie 
Jenkins Schwartz (Hardcover - May 30,  2006)




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