The Caribbean Slave by Kenneth F Kiple

The Caribbean Slave by Kenneth F Kiple

This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease environment after the arrival of the Spaniards; it also looks at the slave ancestors in their West African homeland and examines the ways in which the nutritional and disease environments of that area had shaped its inhabitants. In a particularly innovative chapter, he considers the epidemiological and pathological consequences of the middle passage for newly enslaved blacks. The balance of the book is devoted to the health of the black slave in the West Indies. Using the general health and level of nutrition of the island whites as a control, Kiple pays especially close attention to the role that nutrition played in the development of diseases. The study closes with a look at the continuing demographic difficulties of the black West Indian from the abolition of slavery.

Kenneth F. (Kenneth F.) Kiple is a Bowling Green State University Distinguished University Professor Emeritus. The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Illness (2003), The Cambridge Global History of Food (2000, with Kriemhild Conee Ornelas), and Biological Implications of European Expansion 1450-1800 (1997, with Stephen V. Smith) are among his edited collections. The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of Black People (1987); Plague, Pox, and Pestilence: Disease in History (1997); The Cambridge History of Global Disease (1993); and Plague, Pox, and Pestilence: Disease in History (1997). The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History (1984), Another Dimension to the African Diaspora: Food, Illness, and Racism (1981), and Blacks in Colonial Cuba 1774-1899 (1976, with Virginia Himmelsteib King) are among Kiple's works.

Many papers and essays in scholarly magazines and books round out his extensive collection of work. The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Institutes of Health have all sponsored his work with grants and fellowships.

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ISBN 13	9780521524704
ISBN 10	0521524709
Title	The Caribbean Slave
Author	Kenneth F Kiple
Series	Studies In Environment And History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2002-06-20
Number of pages	292
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