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Enslaved persons - Health and hygiene

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    Disease, resistance, and lies : the demise of the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil and Cuba / Dale T. Graden.

    | Graden, Dale Torston, 1952- | Date: [2014]
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    Observations sur les maladies des negres : leurs causes, leurs traitemens et les moyens de les prévenir / Par M. Dazille.

    | Dazille, Jean-Barthélémi, -1812 | Date: 1776
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    Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations / Sharla M. Fett.

    | Sharla Fett | Date: [2002]
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    An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces : to which are added some hints on the management, &c. of Negroes / by James Grainger, M.D.

    | James Grainger | Date: 1802
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    Essays on some maladies of Angola (1799) / José Pinto de Azeredo ; translated by Stewart Lloyd-Jones ; edited by Timothy D. Walker, Adelino Cardoso, António Braz de Oliveira, and Manuel Silvério Marques.

    | José Pinto de Azevedo | Date: [2016]

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