Black Mortality in Antebellum Savannah

作者：Lockley Tim^*

来源：Social History of Medicine, 2013, 26(4): 633-652.

DOI：10.1093/shm/hkt003

• mortality
• burial records
• plantations
• slavery
• class
• race

Black mortality in an urban environment in the antebellum South is relatively under-researched. This article is based on burial records from Savannah between 1853 and 1861 and argues that black mortality in Savannah was noticeably better than on nearby plantations and was broadly comparable to white mortality. This is in contrast to previous studies on slave mortality which have tended to stress that black mortality was worse than white. I conclude by arguing that mortality was linked to more closely to class than race in Savannah.

• 出版日期2013-11