Liz Kent
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Sick from Freedom
- African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction
- By: Jim Downs
- Narrated by: Gabriel Bush
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Annoying AF
- By Liz Kent on 11-01-24
- Sick from Freedom
- African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction
- By: Jim Downs
- Narrated by: Gabriel Bush
Annoying AF
Reviewed: 11-01-24
The voice actor for this title apparently was not contracted to correctly pronounce the words in this book. A few simple clicks at YouTube would have given him the correct pronunciation for cholera, dispensary, inundated, and MANY MORE! It is extremely distracting to be periodically shouting at the actor with the correct pronunciation of words that were common in the 19th century. Too bad he was entirely unmotivated to do a adequate job reading this book, because the book itself is interesting.
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