Opium Slavery by Jonathan S Jones
During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or “enslaved,” as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction’s health and social consequences. Medical and government authorities compounded veterans' suffering and imbued the epidemic with cultural meaning by branding addiction as a matter of moral weakness, unmanliness, or mental infirmity. Framing addiction as “opium slavery” limited the efficacy of care and left many veterans to suffer needlessly for decades after the war ended.Drawing from veterans' firsthand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records, government and medical reports, newspaper coverage of addiction, and advertisements, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of opiate-addicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail, illuminating the war’s traumatic legacies. In doing so, Jones provides critical historical context for the modern opioid crisis, which bears tragic resemblance to that of the post–Civil War era.
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Gettysburg--the Second Day
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Fighting for the Confederacy
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Gettysburg--the First Day
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Glorious Contentment
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Lincoln and the Decision for War
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Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
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Lee Considered
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Shenandoah 1862
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Meade at Gettysburg
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Vicksburg
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Battle Hymns
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Benjamin Franklin Butler
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Burying the Dead but not the Past
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Pea Ridge
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Pickett's Charge--the Last Attack at Gettysburg
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Bentonville
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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
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The Heart of Hell
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The Alabama and the Kearsarge
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Living by Inches
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Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
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When Sherman Marched North from the Sea
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Retreat from Gettysburg
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Lee and His Army in Confederate History
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U. S. Grant
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River of Death-the Chickamauga Campaign, Volume 1
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Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
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The War That Made America
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Sherman's Civil War
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Roots of Secession
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Andersonville
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Richard Taylor
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Why Confederates Fought
Jonathan S. Jones is assistant professor of history at James Madison University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781469689531 |
| ISBN 10 | 1469689537 |
| Title | Opium Slavery |
| Author | Jonathan S Jones |
| Series | Civil War America |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2025-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |