This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and
susceptibilities and their heretofore unrealized impact on both
slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nutritional,
biological, and medical sciences with demography. The book begins
with an examination of the preslavery era in Africa and then
pursues its subject into the slave societies of the West Indies and
the United States. This truly interdisciplinary approach permits
the blending of two distinctive concepts of racial differences,
that of the hard sciences based on gene frequencies and that of the
social sciences stressing environmental factors. The authors
demonstrate how the presence of malignant malaria and yellow fever
in West Africa encouraged the development of resistance to these
diseases, and conversely how the scarcity of certain nutrients may
have shaped many susceptibilities. They examine the transmission of
disease through the slave trade, revealing how the West African
disease environment accompanied blacks to the Americas and affected
both the aboriginal population and the European colonizers.
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