The Health of Black Civil War soldiers

This is a podcast of a history lecture given by Margaret Humphreys, M.D., Ph.D.,. This particular topic was on health of African American soldiers during the civil war. At the time thier were drones of chatterous non-sense about African American soldiers claiming that the reason more of them died from disease during the civil war was because they were inherently weaker.This was part of a larger and overall social agenda of uplifting the white race while smearing blacks and holding them down. The reason why more black men got sick during the civil war is

1) Worse living accomendations.
2) Many of the African Americns comming out of slavery were physically broken down from years of overuse, abuse and neglect.
3) Black men as a policy were giving the dirty, hard and most labor intensive work details.
4) Black soldiers also recieved the worse clothing and shoe allotments as well as lower salary salaryAlso the podcast tells more of the story. I hope you enjoy this and find it interesting.