Necropolis Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B0BG3JRSQF | 2022 | 13 hours and 51 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 381 MB
Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person's only protection against the scourge was to "get acclimated" by surviving the disease. About half of those who contracted yellow fever died. Repeated epidemics bolstered New Orleans's strict racial hierarchy by introducing another hierarchy, what Kathryn Olivarius terms "immunocapital."