The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History Book

List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments;

Part I. Background and Biology: Introduction;

1. The peoples and their pathogens;
2. West African diet and disease;
3. The parameters of West African survival;

Part II. Diet, Disease, and Demography: Introduction;
4. The middle passage and malnutrition;
5. Plantation nutrition;
6. Malnutrition: morbidity and mortality;
7. Slave demography;
8. Slave infant and child mortality;
9. Black diseases and white medicine;

Part III. Pathogens and Politics: Introduction;
10. Fevers and race;
11. Epilogue: diet, disease, and displacement; Notes; Bibliographic essay; Index.