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This is the untold story of Dr. J. D. Harris (1833-1884), an African American physician whose life and career straddled enormous changes for Black professionals and the practice of medicine. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Harris served as a contract surgeon to the Union army and transitioned...

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Main Author:	Humphreys, Margaret
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	The University of North Carolina Press 2024
Subjects:	African American colonization in Haiti African American physicians in the Civil War African American physicians in Reconstruction American Missionary Association Black medical students in Civil War America Black settlement in antebellum Iowa Charles Chestnutt Cicero Harris Colored Conventions Elizabeth W. Harris Fayetteville, N.C Free Blacks in antebellum North Carolina Fredericksburg Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital Freedmen’s Bureau Howard Hospital Howard Medical School Howard’s Grove Hospital Ira Russell J.D. Harris, MD John Brown’s Raid John Mercer Langston Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Robert Harris St. Elizabeth’s Hospital William Harris Virginia Governor’s election 1869 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBT Biography: science, technology and medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Online Access:	ONIX_20241105_9781469682341_16
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