The Art of Healing. African Medical Practitioners in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Lecture by Manuel Barcia Paz, University of Leeds, given on Sept. 13, 2021 as part of the BCDSS Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture Series.

Manuel Barcia is Chair of Global History at the University of Leeds. He has published extensively on the history of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic World. His most recent book, The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, was published by Yale University Press in 2020.

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