The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade

In this talk, Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world

Speaker:

Professor Manuel Barcia is the Chair of Global History at the University of Leeds. He is the author of several books on slavery in Cuba and the Atlantic World, and his newest book is The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Diseases in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade.