Historian Craig Swenson will discuss the turbulent process of securing medical care for mentally ill African Americans after the Civil War.
by David Price
Black History
After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
Explore what contraband camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united to forge a new version of citizenship.
Meet the unsung heroes of Civil War medicine – African American surgeons.
