Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Boston: Penguin Books, 2000/1861).
Ibid., 98.
Peter Randolph, From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit. The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph: The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life (Boston: James H. Earle, 1893).
Ibid., 141.
Ibid., 141.
Ibid., 170.
US Census Tables, June 1, 1850, ➝.
“Die Cholera morbus, ihre Verbreitung und ihre Zufälle etc,” (Stuttgart: Universität Tübingen 1831); Schnurrer also wrote another opus, Chornik der Seuchen (1825), which documents the rise of epidemics more broadly. For more information about Friedrich Schurrer refer to, Dietlinde Goltz, “’Das Ist Eine Fatale Geschichte Für Unsern Medizinischen Verstand’: Pathogenese Und Therapie Der Cholera Um 1830,” Medizinhistorisches Journal 33, 3/4 (1998): 211–244.
Sandra Hempel, “John Snow,” The Lancet 381 (2013): 1269–1270.
Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
Deirdre Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, (University of Georgia Press, 2017).
Dr. Collins, Practical Rules for the Management and Medical Treatment of Slaves, in the Sugar Colonies (London: Vernor and Hood, 1803).
James Ewell, The Planter’s and Mariner’s Medical Companion : Treating, According to the Most Successful Practice, I. The Diseases Common to Warm Climates and on Ship Board. II. Common Cases in Surgery, as Fractures, Dislocations, &c. &c. III. The Complaints Peculiar to Women and Children. To Which Are Subjoined, a Dispensatory, Shewing How to Prepare and Administer Family Medicines, and a Glossary, Giving an Explanation of Technical Terms (Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1807).
Dr. New, May 7, 1850.
Virginia Jayne Lacy and David Edwin Harrell, “Plantation Home Remedies: Medicinal Recipes from the Diaries or Jonn Pope,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 22, 3 (1963): 259–265.
John C. Gunn, Gunn’s Domestic Medicine, or, Poor Man’s Friend, in the Hours of Affliction, Pain and Sickness: This Book Points out, in Plain Language Free from Doctors’ Terms, the Diseases of Men, Women, and Children, and the Latest and Most Approved Means Used in Their Cure, and Is Intended Expressly for the Benefit of Families in the Western and Southern States : It Also Contains Descriptions of the Medicinal Roots and Herbs of the Western and Southern Country, and How They Are to Be Used in the Cure of Diseases, Arranged on a New and Simple Plan, by Which the Practice of Medicine Is Reduced to Principles of Common Sense (Louisville: Charles Pool, 1838).
The New York Times, August 1, 1854.
Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019).
Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg, Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery (New Haven: Yale University Press 2010).
The New York Times, February 6, 1869.
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 258